Answer:
It demonstrates how social media has the capacity to spread information faster than traditional outlets.
Explanation:
The above is the way this passage develop the overall claim about social media and the spread of information.
From the given passage, we can see that the death of Whitney Houston was first published on Twitter before AP could confirm the story. This actually shows that social media has the capacity to disseminate information faster than traditional outlets. This is so because a vast number of people are on social media and can easily access information faster than from traditional platforms.
The use of tagging and hashtags are avenues provided by social media in order to get information across to audience faster.
The author who would become famous as Mark Twain started out in life as Samuel Clemens. Born and raised along the Mississippi River, Clemens would start out in life as a steamboat pilot.
This book, which was written after he was a famous writer, tells the story of his life on the river. In the first part, he is a cub pilot under his mentor, Horace Bixby, who teaches him how to navigate the treacherous river. The very very wordy Twain mixes it up in this part of the book, describing both the river, steamboats, steamboating, etc., and what happens to him as a pilot. This is an interesting part of the book because it includes a fair amount of commentary about life in America after the Civil War, reflecting on the differences between the North and the South.
Rikki tells Nagaina that he is not going to spare her egg and he will kill her.
Well we have the famous Greek tale of Heracles, the Chinese Tale of shooting down the 49 out of 50 suns in the Sky, the Tale of how the City of Troy stood for so long even against the mighty Achilles talked about in the Illiad, and many more