Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I by Thomas Paine. “I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, ‘Well! give me peace in my day.’ Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, ‘If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;’ and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”

Which is a central idea of this excerpt?
Paine feels that everyone should be able to speak freely, which is why he supports independence.
Paine believes that colonists should fight for independence so their children can live in peace.
Paine believes that some people are selfish and place their needs above others.
Paine felt anger for the first time when he saw an interaction between a Tory and a child.

Paine believes that colonists should fight for independence so their children can live in peace.

Explanation:

According to Paine, he said that if there must be trouble, it must be in his day s that his children will live in peace and that this is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Therefore, based on this, the central idea of this excerpt is that Paine believes that colonists should fight for independence so their children can live in peace.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

the answer is academic paper

and the second should be college professor