My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in america. you could open a restaurant. you could work for the government and get good retirement. you could buy a house with almost no money down. you could become rich. you could become instantly famous.

"of course, you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me when i was nine. "you can be best anything. what does auntie lindo know? her daughter, she is only best tricky."

which type of narration is used in this excerpt?

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Which piece of evidence best supports schlossers claim that meatpacking is most dangerous job in the united states

Which phrase or word from the poem reviles the view of the authors believe that outgoing people tend to gossip or share information