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How does Cofer shape the theme that people don't always get
what they want with this passage?
She includes details about her first kiss that include
the fact she "could not even tell who" she was
kissing
She describes the object of her affection who gave
her her first kiss as a "phantom lover"
She explains how just as quickly as she was kissed
"he walked away into the darkened corridor and
disappeared
She shares details that include her "father would be
waiting just outside

there are no mutiple choices here

6 units. ab and lo are congruent sides, and if ab= 6 units, then lo would be the same.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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b: the exchange of coined money