Answer:
After reading the excerpt from "On the Gull's Road." The word acrimony means:
Explanation:
- "On the Gull's Road" is a short story that is written by Willa Cather. The theme of this story is undying love even death is near.
- In the given excerpt the words "I told him curtly that he was mistaken, but my acrimony made no impression upon his blandness. I felt that I should certainly strike the fellow if he stood there much longer, running his blue ring up and down his beard. I should probably have hated any man who was Mrs. Ebbling's husband, but Ebbling made me sick." These words show that narrator is very angry with Mrs. Ebbling's husband.
In both a republic and a democracy, citizens are empowered to participate in a representational political system. They elect people to represent and protect their interests in how the government functions. Republics and democracies both provide a political system in which citizens are represented by elected officials who are swon to protect their interests.However in a pure democracy, laws are made directly by the voting majority leaving the rights of the minority largely unprotected. And in a
republic, laws are made by representatives chosen the people and must comply with a constitution which specifically protects the rights of the minority from the will of the majority.
Today, tribal governments maintain the power to determine their own governance structures, pass laws, and enforce laws through police departments and tribal
