Does it fast pl. read the two poems from edgar lee masters' "spoon river anthology" and respond to one of the the prompts that follow. your response should be 4-5 sentences. doc hill ii went up and down the streets here and there by day and night, through all hours of the night caring for the poor who were sick. do you know why? my wife hated me, my son went to the dogs. and i turned to the people and poured out my love to them. sweet it was to see the crowds about the lawns on the day of my funeral, and hear them murmur their love and sorrow. but oh, dear god, my soul trembled -- scarcely able to hold to the railing of the new life when i saw em stanton behind the oak tree at the grave, hiding herself, and her grief! ollie m'gee have you seen walking through the village a man with downcast eyes and haggard face? that is my husband who, by secret cruelty never to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty; till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth, and with broken pride and shameful humility, i sank into the grave. but what think you gnaws at my husband's heart? the face of what i was, the face of what he made me! these are driving him to the place where i lie. option 1: how does seeing this marriage from two points of view affect your opinion of the characters? use textual evidence in your response. option 2: describe what you perceive this man and woman's marriage to be, using evidence from the text. make inferences based on the limited information given. option 3: who do you think em stanton is, in the lives of the characters in these poems? use evidence from the text in your analysis.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.