Which statement describes the main argument of Truth’s speech

Wright about a time u had to keep a secret using two paragraphs

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Answer:People are horrible at keeping secrets. As in, really, really bad at it (no matter what anyone may tell you to the contrary). And you know what? We’re right to be. Just like the two Rhesus Macaques in the picture above, we have an urge to spill the beans when we know we shouldn’t—and that urge is a remarkably healthy one. Resist it, and you may find yourself in worse shape than you’d bargained for. And the secreter the secret, the worse the backlash on your psyche will likely be.

I never much cared for Nathaniel Hawthorne. I first dreaded him when my older sister came home with a miserable face and a 100-pound version of The House of the Seven Gables. I felt my anxiety mount when she declared the same hefty tome unreadable and said she would rather fail the test than finish the slog. And I had a near panic attack when I, now in high school myself, was handed my own first copy of the dreaded Mr. H.

Now, I’ve never been one to judge books by size. I read War and Peace cover to cover long before Hawthorne crossed my path and finished A Tale of Two Cities (in that same high school classroom) in no time flat. But it was something about him that just didn’t sit right. With trepidation bordering on the kind of dread I’d only ever felt when staring down a snake that I had mistaken for a tree branch, I flipped open the cover.

Luckily for me, what I found sitting on my desk in tenth grade was not my sister’s old nemesis but The Scarlet Letter. And you know what? I survived. It’s not that the book became a favorite. It didn’t. And it’s not that I began to judge Hawthorne less harshly. After trying my hand at Seven Gables—I just couldn’t stay away, could I; I think it was forcibly foisted on all Massachusetts school children, since the house in question was only a short field trip away—I couldn’t. And it’s not that I changed my mind about the writing—actually, having reread parts now to write this column, I’m surprised that I managed to finish at all (sincere apologies to all Hawthorne fans). I didn’t.

But despite everything, The Scarlet Letter gets one thing so incredibly right that it almost—almost—makes up for everything it gets wrong: it’s not healthy to keep a secret.

I remember how struck I was when I finally understood the story behind the letter – and how shocked at the incredibly physical toll that keeping it secret took on the fair Reverend Dimmesdale. It seemed somehow almost too much. A secret couldn’t actually do that to someone, could it?

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What tone does this passage convey? emma raced home to call yolanda. she wanted to let her know that she had made the regional f

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Optimistic <=== I believe this is the one

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Explain how the title The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is appropriate for the play, or propose a new title and explain why it is mor

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Caesar is the only title character in any of Shakespeare's tragedies that does not make it until the end of the play. The title is appropriate because all of the action and decisions characters make still center around their thoughts and opinions on Caesar as a leader.

Another appropriate title might be The Tragedy of Brutus, because his character arc is the most tragic of anyone else. He starts the play so well respected and in charge of his own thoughts and actions. Through the play he descends into being manipulated by Cassius and falls from grace from the public opinion, eventually leading to his death.

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Life on the Mississippi is set in a small town in the nineteenth century. How is the setting established? And how

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Life on the Mississippi was the book that launched the now well known Samuel Clemens’ career as a “serious” author. Clemens, more well known by the title Mark Twain, paints Mississippi steamboat living and the workings of the river itself as a tribute to that great river. Twain uses this novel as a combination of an autobiography of his early days as a steamboats man, and a collection of anecdotes about the people who made their living both along the great river and on it. It was from this work that the novel Huckleberry Finn would emerge, using the raw material to set the backdrop for this work which is considered Twain’s greatest novel. Mark Twain spent most of his early life in Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi river town that first gave him a taste of what it was like to live the life of a steamboat man. It was there that he was bitten by the bug of becoming a steamboat pilot, though that lay dormant for a time before he finally acted on it. Before Twain could pursue his passion on the steam boat, his father died, and he became apprenticed to a printer and began to write for his brother’s newspaper. It was in 1857, ten years after his father’s death, and after having begun work in many eastern cities as a printer, that Twain decided to go seek his fortune in South America. Before he could make it there, however, he had to go through the major port city of New Orleans. It was here in New Orleans that Twain decided to give up his possible fortune in South America and pursue his first and foremost passion, becoming a steamboat captain. This part of Mark Twain’s life had a huge impact on his greatest writing, and it was in this time that he obtained the material he needed to write Life on the Mississippi. Reading through the book, it is obvious how much respect Twain has for the river itself. This is evident through the ways in which he describes its incredible size, and at the same time its minute complexities. His detailed descriptions and picturesque use of language within Life on the Mississippi serve to prove to Twain’s audience that he is indeed a serious and well spoken author. It is obvious that Twain affinity for the river itself is the source and backbone of this book, while Twain also manages to bring out the eccentricities of not only the river, but also of the people who populate it. These stories of workers, farmers, and steamboat captains serve to bring the novel alive for the audience. As I have stated earlier, this also allows for a great deal of background for his novel Huckleberry Finn. It is in this novel, considered his greatest of all time, that Twain gains the admiration and awe of people around the globe, and without the raw material of Life on the Mississippi, he would not have what he needed to make this novel what it was. Thus, he began his career as a novelist with this novel, and he reached his peak as well through this novel, gaining him more recognition as an author than the vast majority of all American authors, and than authors throughout the world.

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Lizabeths apology letter

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We can write a letter as if we were Lizabeth from "Marigolds," apologizing to Miss Lottie about the garden and explaining what happened that night.

<h3>A letter from Lizabeth</h3>

Lizabeth is the main character and narrator in the short story "Marigolds." One night, angry and disillusioned about life, Lizabeth destroys the only beautiful things in the poverty-stricken neighborhood where she lives - Miss Lottie's marigolds. This is the moment where Lizabeth stops being a child and begins to mature.

A letter from Lizabeth would most likely apologize and try to explain things to Miss Lottie. An example of such a letter is the following:

-"Dear Miss Lottie,

Even though I know what I did is beyond repair, I am writing to beg for your forgiveness. There is no excuse for ruining the poor, innocent flowers, but I will nonetheless try to explain my awful actions.

That night was the first moment in my life where I understood things. I had finally realized how poor we really are - all of us. I saw sadness in despair in my own father, the very man I thought was infallible. I saw my own impotence as a child, as well as my own ignorance of the world and how cruel it is.

There was rage inside me, and I felt the need to destroy in order to let it out. The poor marigolds were too beautiful - the only representation of beauty in our neighborhood, Miss Lottie. So I killed them, for I couldn't allow such beauty to exist in such a cold, ugly world.

I will be forever sorry, Miss Lottie. I saw it in your eyes that night that you knew there was something wrong, something happening to me. That gives me the hope that you might understand and forgive.

Lizabeth"

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