May I ask for some further clarification? Is this meant to be a essay about events in your life, or just about your likes and interests?
A non-Us citizen who has not been involved in a conflict with the United States and for those who have applied for US citizenship are eligible for land ownership under the Homestead Act. Approximately 10 percent of US total land mass is given away to the eligible applicants.
Answer: ominous
Explanation:
In this paragraph, the word forbiding means the same as ominous. Ominous simply means that something that's threatening or bad.
From the passage, we are informed that a "dark and forbidding wood of giant arborescent ferns rose". This gives us the impression that there's something threatening there and that's an ominous sign.
Answer:
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher Henry David Thoreau is renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden He was also an advocate of civil liberties Explanation:
His mentor was Ralph Waldo Emerson