The theme that the excerpt above expresses is that poetry is genuine when it reflects truth and reality.
Poetry, in its existence, enables the passage of stories along generations, so in this essence, poetry is an instrument of history. Poetry has a long history, as it has already existed before prose.
The answers are as follows:
1.C
The grandmother always give Nora a penny every Friday. This is because Nora had a good relationship withe her, unlike Jackie who does not have a good relationship with grandma. The grandmother does not give her money to Jackie.
2. D.
During a conflict in their home, the mother was sympathetic to Jackie while the father barely talk to him. The conflict occurred because Jackie refused to eat the food cooked by the grandmother and his daddy disciplined him for that when Nora told on him.
3. A.
The narrator pretended that he had toothache in order to escape going into confession with his classmates. Although he managed not to go with his classmates he still ended up going to the confession later to confess his sins. He was later to find out that his sins were not as bad as he had earlier thought.
Answer: Lambs and anapests (i.e., one or two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one) are called rising meter. Hope this helps!
Child labor was commonly used in the first industrial revolution. The laborers, at that time, needed to work many hours nonstop. Even so, it was not enough, and these workers made their children work too so the family could sustain itself.
Of course, the abuses committed by those employers were stopped, and many laws were made to prevent them. One of these laws was the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
FLSA is a law that creates limits to child labor, it also forbids this type of work in some circumstances. Under sixteen years old, children have several restrictions to be allowed to work, and under eighteen years old they had fewer restrictions, but could not exercise what everything an adult could, for example, work in a hazardous environment. However, agricultural work was not included in the FLSA, <u>and a good lot of the children worked in this job which was not limited and child labor could inadvertently be used.</u>
Even with FLSA, child labor continues to exist illegally, and its horrors continue to prevent children from having a decent childhood. That is, the youth protection must leave the law papers and assure effectively the childhood safety.
<u>This protection is extremely important, and the rollback of child labor must be avoided when hazardous to their healthy growth – both body and mind.</u>
