One of the hottest competitors at the 2002 olympics at salt lake city was 19-year-old apolo ohno. his event was short track speed skating, americans were pinning their hopes on this young man for more than one reason. they wanted a u. s. win, of course. but just as important, a medal at the olympics would be a personal victory for apolo. apolo's mother left the family when he was one year old he was raised in seattle by his father, yukio. yukio had his parenting work cut out for him. in day care, apolo climbed over the fence, as a latchkey kid, he didn't always come home. he sometimes disappeared on weekends. he hung out mostly with a bad crowd. the father and son fought constantly yukio considered sending apolo to military school. at the same time, yukio kept trying to get apolo interested in some activities, such as choir, swimming, and in-line skating. nothing worked until apolo was watching the 1994 olympics. a new event was introduced: short-track speed skating the boy was 11 years old, and he was hooked.

In the farewell speech, queen elizabeth's use of first-person point of view her to appear to be impartial and objective, prevents her from addressing the audience directly allows her to share her personal thoughts and ideas. makes it seem as though she's observing from the outside.

In this excerpt from his famous virginia convention speech patrick henry employees which literary device

In another country by ernest hemingway (excerpts) excerpt 1 "in the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. it was cold in the fall in milan and the dark came very early. then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. there was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. the deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. it was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains." excerpt 2 "the people hated us because we were officers, and from a wine-shop someone called out, "a basso gli ufficiali! " as we passed. another boy who walked with us sometimes and made us five wore a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be rebuilt. he had gone out to the front from the military academy and been wounded within an hour after he had gone into the front line for the first time. they rebuilt his face, but he came from a very old family and they could never get the nose exactly right. he went to south america and worked in a bank. but this was a long time ago, and then we did not any of us know how it was going to be afterward. we only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it any more." 19 select the correct answer. what important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically. b. it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers’ determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers’ sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect. e. it shows the wounded soldiers’ belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals. reset next