Which lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's “the contest” suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? the answeres have ( ) around them and there is more than one answer (an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.) (“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”) “if it you, great caesar,” said arsenius platus, the officer of attendance, “the man cannot be found, and there are some very strange rumours flying about.” (“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.) i tell you also that there are a good many who are as guilty as he among the people, for i heard them with my own ears raise cheers for him when he had sung his ridiculous ode. (i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”) “it is not to be wondered at if he won their votes, caesar,” said the soldier, “for from what i hear it would have been no disgrace had you, even you, been conquered in this conquest.” (“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”) “none know him, great caesar! he came from the mountains, and he disappeared into the mountains. you marked the wildness and strange beauty of his face. ( it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”)

What to the slave is the fourth of july? by frederick douglass fellow-citizens—pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am i called upon to speak here to-day? what have i, or those i represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am i, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings, resulting from your independence to us? but, such is not the state of the case. i say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. i am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. the blessings in which you this day rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. the rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. the sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. this fourth of july is yours, not mine. you may rejoice, i must mourn. to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, i hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. if i do forget, if i do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth! " to forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before god and the world. my subject, then, fellow-citizens, is american slavery. i shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. standing there, identified with the american bondman, making his wrongs mine, i do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this fourth of july. whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. what is one of the lessons douglass impresses on his listeners? a) the nation should not rejoice until everyone has freedom. b) he must speak on the fourth of july in order to bring change. c) for him to join the celebration would be treason. d) he can see the perspective of slaves and citizens with equal clarity.

What is the central idea in this advice from branch rickey to jackie robinson?  

Write a description about a boy with blonde hair that falls perfectly without him even trying. not about anything else like clothes or personality.