Answer: Though a voluminous writer and one of the great masters of English expression, Franklin wrote habitually with a single eye to immediate practical results. He never posed for posterity. Of all the writings to which he mainly owes his present fame, it would be difficult to name one which he gave to the press himself or of which he saw the proofs. Yet he never wrote a dull line nor many which a century of time has robbed of their interest or value. Whatever he wrote seems to have been conceived upon a scale which embraced the whole human race as well as the individual or class to whom it was specifically addressed, the one evidence of true greatness which never deceives nor misleads. If he wrote to his wife, it was more or less a letter from every husband to his wife; if to his daughter, it was a letter that any daughter would be pleased to receive from her father; if to a philosopher or a statesman, there was always that in the manner and the matter of it which time cannot stale, and which will be read by every statesman and philosopher with the sort of interest they would have felt had it been addressed personally to them.
In proportion to Franklin’s apparent indifference to posthumous fame, has been the zeal with which the products of his pen have been hunted down and gathered in from all the corners of the earth and new precautions taken to guard them from the depredations of time.
Answer:
Knowledge of the environment stimulated the quest to colonize regions that could provide many natural resources capable of stimulating the empire's economy.
Explanation:
The imperial expansion between 1450 and 1750, refers to the political, economic and social process, which allowed European nations to take over other nations with the intent of promoting the European empire in the economic and even cultural spheres. In that case, European nations exploited the resources that the nations dominated by them could provide.
The knowledge of the environment, allowed the imperial expansion to search for nations in regions that could provide a vast amount of natural resources that would supply the European nation and that would allow a profitable trade between countries.
The correct answer is B. Books make the speaker feel like she is somewhere else.
Explanation:
In this excerpt, the speaker refers to books as "another world"; this short phrase suggests the speaker feels books are the way to access other places or feel she is somewhere else probably because books offer information about things she does not know and mentally transport her to other places. Moreover, the detail "just waiting at my fingertips" shows how much the speaker enjoys the process of reading and exploring books because she is eager to read them all. In this context, it can be concluded "Books make the speaker feel like she is somewhere else."
