A 39-year-old Maine coon named Gilbert had a birthday party on Saturday. The host of the party was his owner, Debbie Marshall. She was given the cat as a gift on her 5th birthday. Marshall’s daughter and grandson were also at the party. Reporters from around the state came to the party as well. Marshall was shocked by the attention she and Gilbert were getting. "I never knew that having an old cat was such a big deal," she said. "My friend said that a 39-year-old cat had to be a record. I did not think it was true!"
Gilbert is the oldest living cat in the world. The next oldest is a 36-year-old Bombay that lives in Mumbai.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.