Excerpt from) the creation james weldon johnson and god stepped out on space, and he looked around and said, “i’m lonely— i’ll make me a world.” and far as the eye of god could see darkness covered everything, blacker than a hundred midnights down in a cypress swamp. then god smiled, and the light broke, and the darkness rolled up on one side, and the light stood shining on the other, and god said, “that’s good! ” then god reached out and took the light in his hands, and god rolled the light around in his hands until he made the sun; and he set that sun a-blazing in the heavens. and the light that was left from making the sun god gathered it up in a shining ball and flung it against the darkness, spangling the night with the moon and stars. then down between the darkness and the light he hurled the world; and god said, “that’s good! ” then god himself stepped down— and the sun was on his right hand, and the moon was on his left; the stars were clustered about his head, and the earth was under his feet. and god walked, and where he trod his footsteps hollowed the valleys ouy and bulged the mountains up. then he stopped and looked and saw that the earth was hot and barren. so god stepped over to the edge of the world and he spat out the seven seas; he batted his eyes, and the lightnings flashed; he clapped his hands, and the thunders rolled; and the waters above the earth came down,40 the cooling waters came down. read the passage on the left to answer the following questions: 22) the speaker presents god's creations primarily through a) foreshadowing to prepare readers for each miraculous component. b) sequential narration propelled by conjunctions and transitions. c) fragmented dialogue and informal word choices to establish familiarity. d) descriptions of each spiritual element in order to evoke awe and intrigue.

Which of the following words in bold means “to put before something else”? a) the broken device sat unused in a box. b) jose wanted to defermaking a decision about college until the spring. c) ashok’s counsel was to go to the store tomorrow. d) i would prefer to go to a movie this weekend instead of the play.

Read the passage from animal farm. as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead—she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. she knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of napoleon. but still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled. it was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of jones's gun. such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them. what was most likely orwell’s purpose for writing this passage? to show that clover is more sensitive to violence than the others to remind readers of major's speech and the original rebellion to present napoleon as a cruel leader unworthy of the animals’ support to represent misled followers and their dashed hopes for better lives

What is the author's purpose in both patrick henry's speech and thomas paines common sense