I believe yes. Teenagers are people who have the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves. Although their decisions making is still developing in this time of their life, it is developed enough for teenagers to make decisions on their own.
“Concrete Mixers” by Patricia Hubbell compares concrete mixers to elephants to show humans have created relationships with their machines in much the same way as with animals under their care. The poet shows how the drivers of the concrete mixers wash and tend to their mixers just as the mahout take care of their elephants. This comparison is set up at the beginning of the poem with this simile: “Like elephant tenders they hose them down.” To continue this relationship, the poet describes the concrete drivers as “mahouts”, the name for people who take care of elephants in other countries. The poem also describes how the concrete mixers “stand in muck”, meaning that these machines are in muddy environments similar to the environments of elephants who stand in mud or muck.In the end the poet describes how the concrete mixers are like elephants working to do humans’ work by lifting, moving and helping to create new structures in a city. The poet uses several similes to describe concrete mixers as if they were alive: “Concrete mixers/Move like elephants/Bellow like elephants/Spray like elephants” She further strengthens the effect by writing that they “…are urban elephants/Their trunks are raising a city.” This metaphor means that just as elephants work for humans in
Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
https://www.coursehero.com/file/p6fqalm/Concrete-mixers-Move-like-elephants-Bellow-like-elephants-Spray-like-elephants/
Answer:
To inform people of the natural beauty in a part of America
Explanation:
In the passage above, the author describes how he saw the beauty of the nature and that persuaded him to stop and stare at the beauty nature has to offer.
His thorough description of the beautiful mainlands is because he wants his readers to know what a beautiful place it was. When a reader reads something, he automatically imagines the words in his mind that he is reading and builds a picture of it.
This description will surely let the readers know of the beauty and might as well persuade them to visit those areas as well.
The story of Charles Dutton can be described as inspirational, is the type of story Hollywood has us used to, stories of people "making it", overcoming a rough upbring or a huge mistake.
Answer:
D) The shepherd wants his love to live with him so he promises her a life of luxury.
Explanation:
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steeply mountain yale
The passage is largely about the Summary. The Summary summarizes the passage's content. The Summary is always in the first sentence.
