"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the U.S. of America National Anthem. Was written on September 14, 1814, by the lawyer an amateur poet Francis Scott Key. Key described in the song what he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
When he endorses: "hirelings and slaves" Key probably felt that sailors were being mistreated by their captain. Besides many of the British soldiers were forced into war.
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A. Violent Delights
Explanation:
Violence is bad, and delights are good.
Question 1) The answer is A. The description of the mother’s love as “a river” coveys its abundance, and the mentioning that that it’s “inside me still” suggests that it’s never ending. This is especially clear when compared with B and C, neither of which fit the sentence as much as A.
Question 2) The answer is C. The sentence compared the usefulness of the assembly instructions to a camel in the Arctic. A camel, obviously, would not fare very well in a climate like the Arctic. The answer A is possible, but there is nothing in the sentence that suggests that the instructions were specifically not in English. Therefore, it can be most logically inferred that the instructions were not very helpful.
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The Stone Soup is a European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal that everyone enjoys, and exists as a moral regarding the value of sharing. In varying traditions, the stone has been replaced with other common inedible objects, and therefore the fable is also known as axe soup, button soup, nail soup, and wood soup.
