Read this paragraph. sitting on the porch swing with her eyes closed and her headphones on, ana saw her mother leaning out of the kitchen door. her mom gestured for her to remove her headphones and said, "i'd like you to complete your homework before you begin lounging around this afternoon." "i just need a break, mom," ana replied. "there may be time for a break later, but algebra needs your attention now," insisted her mother as she turned and headed inside. with a deep sigh, ana removed her headphones. she reached for her discarded backpack, wishing she could have just a little unstructured time. what is the conflict in the excerpt?   character versus self   character versus character   character versus society   character versus nature

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

According to nature, how does emerson suggest man should go about building his own world? what will be the result of such building? evaluate his vision of the future from a biblical worldview (reference, especially, rom. 1: 18–32)

Which lines most directly states the authors feelings