Answer:
in a way that is free from outside control or influence.
"the independently run museum receives no public funding"
without outside help; unaided.
"disabled people living independently in their own homes"
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<span>Nye describes her experience being comforted by her mother when she was sick. Her mother told her she was not dying as long as she still had the strength to make a fist. Nye then writes that she is still comforted by this thought.</span>
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The poem has several devices such as:
</span>Allusion it can be applied because it refers to a
past historical event.<span>
</span><span>Imagery because it describes in detail the palm trees. Among other things.
The tone </span>is nostalgic because she is
looking back on she was traveling but she also uses a tone of pride because she
survived the journey and she can still make her hand into a fist .
"The Four Hundred" list was a phrase coined by Ward McAllister, a rich New Yorker who thought that there were exactly 400 people in New York who mattered. This elite was strictly limited, in his opinion, which means that people within this circle held up to each other, disregarding the outside world and always trying to become better than the neighbor: they wanted to spend more, live in bigger homes, have more expensive cars, all in hope to better show off their top position on the social ladder.
