<span>They contribute to the rising action by revealing additional information about the characters of the Lebrun brothers.</span>
For question 1, I'm pretty sure the answer is D. Exposition. For question 2, the answer is C. Narration
Knots usually take 1 minute or so to do. If you keep on tying the knots and get used to the pattern, you will get faster and faster and eventually will be able to do it in 4 seconds. It is kind of like picking strawberries. If you keep on picking strawberries and timing yourself, you will get faster like when you typed the knot
To find your voice in writing what type of writer you are and be able to hear it from your tone/mood.
Kennedy felt great pressure to have the United States "catch up to and overtake" the Soviet Union in the "space race." Four years after the Sputnik shock of 1957, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in space on April 12, 1961, greatly embarrassing the U.S. While Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, he only flew on a short suborbital flight instead of orbiting the Earth, as Gagarin had done. In addition, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in mid-April put unquantifiable pressure on Kennedy. He wanted to announce a program that the U.S. had a strong chance at achieving before the Soviet Union. After consulting with Vice President Johnson, NASA Administrator James Webb, and other officials, he concluded that landing an American on the Moon would be a very challenging technological feat, but an area of space exploration in which the U.S. actually had a potential lead. Thus the cold war is the primary contextual lens through which many historians now view Kennedy's speech.
