Teacher in Rural Kentucky
Answer:
Negore knew he needed to kill Ivan and the Russians and thus avenge his brother's death. Negore wanted desperately to tell Ivan the Terrible that his brother had been mauled by a bear, but he didn't dare speak up. Negore's love for and loyalty to his brother outweighed his fear that people would think him a coward. Negore allowed Ivan the Terrible to beat him so his people could win the war against the Russians.
This question is about Ronald Reagan's speech, entitled "A Time for Choosing".
Answer:
As you did not provide the lines to which this question refers, my answer may be a little inaccurate, because the numbering of lines I have from this course may be different from the numbering of lines to which your question refers.
However, the premise in the paragraph that begins on line 39 according to my text is that the loss of freedom is not beneficial to anyone and that it causes pain and suffering to anyone.
Explanation:
On line 39 Reagan talks about the experience that a friend of his, a Cuban refugee, had to face because of the country's lack of freedom. he had to flee from Cuba, even though he was a successful businessman. Some people reported that he was lucky to be able to leave the country and he even agrees, because he had this option, although many of his fellow citizens do not.
Reagan uses this story to show how the lack of freedom is harmful to anyone, regardless of their social position or their ability to escape. The lack of freedom is harmful for that reason, it cannot be allowed in America.
On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. ... Miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold during the California Gold Rush.
Explanation:
It means that even it everyone is doing something wrong, it is not right. It is referring to peer pressure, don't do something just because everyone else it doing it.