Thoreau lived on Emerson's land, which was the subject of one of his books.
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A colon here is right to set up the quote from the introduction in the sentence. The lead in shows that the writer is about to provide a specific example, not a quote that continues the flow of the sentence. A colon allows the quote to stand alone from the rest of the sentence as an example.</span>
Answer:
The story speaks about how the astronauts cope with boredom in space.
Explanation:
The article "Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You To Death" is written by Maggie Koerth-Baker. The article begins with six astronauts living on the slopes of volcano for a project named HI-SEAS.
They began with a pretending game of "What if we lived on Mars?" The astronauts are studying how people react on spending large amount of time in space. According to the article, it takes eight months on each way and the astronauts get to spend a large amount of time in the space and they must get bored of these long times.
The writer reveals that these chronic boredom times can be very dangerous as it makes the astronauts day dream and make them depressed also. So, they should engage themselves in various tasks to avoid getting bored as it involves the risk of life of other crew members as well.
Answer:
The correct answer is: because she feels she deserved to marry a man above her class.
Explanation:
This story is sat in Paris, France sometime in the mid-1800s. It describes a woman called Mathilde, who is unhappy with her material status and she dreams of being rich.
One day, she receives an invitation for a ball and she becomes upset because she doesn't have a proper dress to wear. However, her husband decides to buy her a dress and spends all his savings, just to make her happy.
Mathilde doesn't appreciate what her husband did for her and she considers that she deserved to marry a man above her class.
Answer:
For some reason my answer got deleted, but if I were you I would go with #2.
Explanation:
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