The annual New York City Marathon is the worlds largest marathon.
Answer:
A real war and a "war" of fighting to grow old and successful
Explanation:
Based on the excerpt, Robert Louis Stevenson was reminiscing about his days as a younger man and the internal conflicts he had.
In the first paragraph, he talked about the real war he witnessed where he heard the "loudness" of the battles and the "pain of men's wounds". He also talked about another internal "war" which had to do with "slavery of competition", toiling for years and which culminated to fighting to be old and successful.
July, Full, Put, Push,Pull-
JULY 18 is my birthday. I had to PUT my decorations and decorated my house. My mom said to PUSH the box of decorations to the living room. There I PULLED the decorations. At 5 PM, all my friends came and we started eating. After 3 slices of cake, I was FULL!
Cook, Wood, Book, Hood, Shook
I am starting my own restaurant. I was planning to COOK a delicious dessert. But first before I do that i am going to build my restaruant out of of WOOD. So i got some wood. After I built it I needed a BOOK that tells me how to bake chocolate chip cookies. So i bought a book and at 7 PM, I finished and people started coming, but then they all ran away for some reason, then I realized that it was raining, and it SHOOK my restaraunt so i went back to my house and it was a good thing I had a HOOD to cover my head!