The article "Thanksgiving: Fact or Fiction" lists different beliefs about Thanksgiving and states whether they are fact or fiction.
Here is the list:
1. Thanksgiving is held on the final Thursday of every year.
- Fiction. Initially this was the case, but it was changed to be the fourth Thursday in November to make the shopping season longer.
2. One of America's founding fathers thought the turkey should be the national bird of the United States.
- Fact. Benjamin Franklin suggested this.
3. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln became the first American president to proclaim a national day of thanksgiving.
- Fiction. Three presidents before him proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving.
4. Macy's was the first American department store to sponsor a parade in celebration of Thanksgiving.
- Fiction. Gimbel's store had the first Thanksgiving Day parade in 1920. However, four years later Macy's had theirs and that became the tradition.
5. Turkeys are slow moving birds that lack the ability to fly.
- Fiction (kind of). Domestic turkeys, which are eaten at Thanksgiving cannot fly, but wild ones can fly for a short time.
6. Native Americans used cranberries, now a staple of many Thanksgiving dinners, for cooking as well as medicinal purposes.
- Fact. They were used for food, medicine, and dye.
7. The movement of the turkey inspired a ballroom dance.
- Fact. It's called the turkey trot.
8. On Thanksgiving Day in 2007, two turkeys earned a trip to Disney World.
- Fact. George W. Bush issued a pardon to two turkeys named May and Flower.
9. Turkey contains an amino acid that makes you sleepy.
- Fact. However, most people likely feel sleepy from the fat and carbohydrates, or simply eating too much food.
10. The tradition of playing or watching football on Thanksgiving started with the first National Football League game on the day in 1934.
- Fiction. The American Intercollegiate Football Association held a game in 1876.
Well, we know that setting is location and surroundings, usually! Irony/sarcasm doesn't apply here, as it's usually in the form of dialogue or much more than those statements.Even if you were confused about tragic resolution, you know enough that there isn't anything particularly 'tragic' nor 'resolving' about this excerpt. So characterization seems best fit, giving an idea on the individual and their attire and how they are interacting with the other! But please, you're free to interpret it yourself in any case if doubtful upon my own.
C. Helen Keller was an girl
Answer:
The children went out in the sunshine, playing and 'savoring' the warmth of the sunshine.
Explanation:
Ray Bradbury's <em>All Summer In A Day</em> tells the story of how group of children in Venus were in anticipation for the sun. But along with this eagerly awaited event, they also exercised a bullying act of locking Margot in the closet, thus keeping her away from the sun and the experience of enjoying it.
When the sun did finally come out, <em>"they were running and turning their faces up to the sky and feeling the sun on their cheeks like a warm iron; they were taking off their jackets and letting the sun burn their arms".</em> They played and enjoyed under the sunshine, <em>"until the tears ran down their faces; they put their hands up to that yellowness and that amazing blueness and they breathed of the fresh, fresh air,..... looking at everything and savored everything"</em> .The narrator even commented that they were <em>"like animals escaped from their caves"</em>, playing until raindrops began falling again, driving away the sunshine.
The correct answer here would be the option B.
Shaw here is clearly disapproving the ways of the passionately religious people who he sees as not very moral and religious at all. They follow it for reasons other than faith or belief and one morality for than as good as another as long as it does not bother them. They do it for status and money. Shaw is clearly both sardonic and disdainful towards these people and he makes few humorous remarks on their behalf.
