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The summary of this text is that;
- we are all blessed with some potentials from God. However, we need to courageously express the talents which we have been bequeathed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosopher and essayist who enjoyed solitude and recommended some moral etiquettes.
One of these etiquettes is self-reliance. In this excerpt, Emerson likens humans to an eye that was placed so that a ray could fall on it. This eye can testify of the ray.
This shows that we were created purposefully. We have also been blessed with talents. Cowards hide their own talents. We should not be cowards, rather, we should courageously express the gifts that we possess.
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The correct answer would be option C: "feels slightly foolish about the events that occur", this due to the way the excerpt is written, since, it seems the author wanted to let the readers know that the narrator isn't stupid, so that they keep that in mind, when they read about a foolish thing said narrator did. If the narrator did something dumb, then option A and B would be discarded, as would option D.
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The nobles had again sought to make themselves as powerful as possible.
In the passage, it explains that under Stephen the nobles had experienced a ton of power (the author uses the word exorbitant which shows how extremely privileged their lives were), but that Henry the Second then took a lot of their power away. Now, they are resuming their former positions (from under Stephen) to a point where they are becoming as powerful as possible.</span>
