The ground shook in response to the deafening crash, and the world seemed to stand still for a moment. But only just. The ground shook, the people around the area breaking into a commotion. All of them swarmed to the nearest shelter, desperately searching for a means to escape their fate. One person rushed into their home, hastily barricading the door as several people followed after them. Another stood on the edge of a roof, apprehensively taking a step forward as the world went up in flames around them. It had come. The apocalypse, long awaited, was finally happening.
Colonial literature was inspired and fueled by Puritanism. It was religious and spiritual in nature and style, and in line with the major political upheavals of its day and age. The most notable nonfiction works include John Winthrop's The History of New England and William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, both of which can be regarded as memoirs that explore and depict troubles and daily occurrences that colonizers faced in their early effort to establish their new home. There were also sermons that urged the colonizers to lead pious and devoted lives, following the paths of God - the most notable of these sermons is John Winthrop's A Model of Christian Charity. In it, Winthrop addresses the specific temptations that the Puritans were facing in the New World.
Poets were also drawing inspiration from religious and daily matters that occupied lives of these people in their small communities. But there were a few authentic voices, female and Afro-American: as a woman writer, Anne Bradstreet was mainly preoccupied with familial topics. while Phillis Wheatley is considered the first female representative of African-American poetry.
Answer:
destructive
, damaging or harmful.
Explanation:
The words closest to devastating in meaning are
destructive
, ruinous
, disastrous
, catastrophic
, calamitous
, cataclysmic
, pernicious
, noxious, harmful
, damaging
, injurious
, hurtful and wounding. Devastating means highly destructive and damaging something happen to something or somebody. All the words present in the above are same in meaning to the word devastating.
C. Tell the editor-in-chief about her relationship to the pilot, and ask that the story be assigned to another reporter.
