Why would an author-use an ellipsis to omit words from a quote? (1 point) O to add in their own thoughts
O to create suspense
O to leave out unnecessary
information
O to break up the text

Write 2 paragraphs summarizing how the ideas and customs that the colonists brought from england began to change once they left their homeland.

Mens rea is a latin term that means guilty mind and refers to the concept of whether or not a person intended to commit a crime. why is mens rea considered a key component in many types of crimes?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is