Plz will mark brainist the world in miniature on my bedroom shelf a venetian gondola bumps against a german music box steers past a lucky cat from tokyo, round the pewter soldiers from london, and stops for lunch at the plastic eiffel tower.   mom travels for work a lot. i miss her. but each time she adds something new to my shelf to remind me i’m always with her. how do the things on the shelf affect the meaning of this poem? they symbolize the speaker's desire to explore the unknown. they represent the speaker's respect for his mother's hard work. they symbolize the sense of loss the speaker feels in his mother's absence.   they represent the idea that the speaker is always in his mother's thoughts. i think its b

Ead the passage from "marriage is a private affair” by chinua achebe. "i shall never see her,” was the reply. from that night the father scarcely spoke to his son. he did not, however, cease hoping that he would realize how serious was the danger he was heading for. day and night he put him in his prayers. nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. but he kept hoping that it would pass away. if it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic. "it has never been heard,” was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later. in that short sentence he spoke for all of his people. this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke when news went round about his son’s behaviour. by that time the son had gone back to lagos. "it has never been heard,” said the old man again with a sad shake of his head. "what did our lord say? ” asked another gentleman. "sons shall rise against their fathers; it is there in the holy book.” "it is the beginning of the end,” said another. how does this passage reinforce the traditional social hierarchy? the older men in the village tell okeke that he should respect nnaemeka’s decision. the older men in the village console nnaemeka about okeke’s attitude toward his choices. the older men in the village commiserate with okeke regarding nnaemeka’s decision to disobey him. the older men in the village think that nnaemeka should be optimistic that okeke will accept his decision.

What was the main reason for truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on japan? to shorten the war to punish japan to save american lives the answer is c!

What is the effect of narrator's word choice on the tone of this passage? the words "my heart shrank within itself" create a fearful tone. the words "better-omened" set a hopeful tone. the words "wounded his fellow" develop a remorseful tone. the words "struck harsh upon my ears" suggest an irritated tone.