"the winds of fate" one ship drives east and another drives west with the selfsame winds that blow. ’tis the set of the sails and not of the gales which tells us the way to go. like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, as we voyage along through life; ’tis the set of a soul that decides its goal, and not the calm or the strife. —ella wheeler wilcox what is this poem about? a. the excitement of a sea voyage b. the way a person’s character guides life c. the power of the wind on sails d. the problems of living everyone encounters in “the winds of fate,” the poet compares a person’s life to a. a ship at sea. b. the wind. c. a ship’s sails d. the power of fate. according to this poem’s first stanza, what determines the direction of a ship? a. the sea b. the soul c. the sails d. the wind

Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.