Read the excerpt below from act 1.3 of the tragedy of julius caesar and answer the question that follows. casca: i have seen tempests when the scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks . . but never till tonight, never till now, did i go through a tempest dropping fire. either there is a civil strife in heaven, or else the world, too saucy with the gods, incenses them to send destruction. which description fits the mood expressed in this excerpt best? excited and in anticipation of something wonderful once the storm is over afraid of this storm because it is one of the worst of all he has experienced calm because this is not the first storm he has encountered tense and in anticipation of something even worse to come once the storm is over

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.