Excerpt from at the earth’s core edgar rice burroughs 4 and upon all the noonday sun poured its torrid rays out of a cloudless sky. 5 “where on earth can we be? ” i asked, turning to perry. 6 for some moments the old man did not reply. he stood with bowed head, buried in deep thought. but at last he spoke. 7“david,” he said, “i am not so sure that we are on earth.” 8 “what do you mean, perry? ” i cried. “do you think that we are dead, and this is heaven? ” he smiled, and turning, pointing to the nose of the prospector protruding from the ground at our backs. the novel at the earth's core includes characters david, a mining heir, and his elderly friend and inventor, perry. in this excerpt, what comment does the author seem to make with the dialogue between them? a) everyone fears death. b) with age comes insight and wisdom. c) today's youth are spoiled and rash. d) advancing years clouds one's judgment. hint: consider how and when each character speaks answer is b am i correct

Your answer is correct with age comes insight and wisdom the dialogue between David and Perry supports this answer choice, especially section six which presents Perry as a thoughtful person. He I described as old-not as feeble. His bowed head Nd deep thoughts before responding evoke a sense of wisdom. His smile suggests insight. So your answer will be B

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the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.