Answer:
I'm pretty sure it's the first answer
Explanation:
In the excerpt, it talks about the narrator being solemn and filled with sorrow.
Bierce uses the method to draw out a single moment in the life of the person to a long drawn introspection on life.
Explanation:
The Incident at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce is one of the great short stories of all time.
It uses the last instant of a life of a solider who is sentenced to death for his introspection on life and his hope of escaping the ordeal.
This is drawn out in suspense by the methodical writing style of the writer who draws out the moment into a story that we start believing that he has actually escaped.
By the time the reality hits us the, he is already dead.
Answer:
True.
Explanation:
Thomas Jefferson, a distinguished representative from Virginia (even a former governor), was charged by the Continental Congress to write the Declaration of Independence of 1976 together with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. However, the draft is mainly Jefferson´s work. US independence was proclaimed on July 4, 1776.
This question is incomplete, here´s the complete question
Read Dissent: The History of an American Idea, by Ralph Young
What does Young say is “most astonishing” about the World War II antiwar movement?
Answer:
What Young finds “most astonishing” is the great number of conscientious objectors, as even organizations that had anti-war positions in the past, such as the socialist, the communists, and the anarchists, were unanimously presenting their support for World War II as a fight against fascism.
Explanation:
Those who were against the war believed that governments had had chances to stop the violent conflict, but didn´t take them.
Answer:
The young Emilia Castañeda and her family lived in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s. Once the Great Depression hit, the Hoover Administration implemented involuntary deportations. Through various means, hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants and U.S. citizens of Mexican heritage were deported to Mexico. Emilia would not return to her home for many years.
