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Answer for question 1: Re-enactors will never be able to completely replicate all of the situations and challenges of life in the past. Re-enactors, like historians, suffer limitations that cannot be ignored. A paucity of historical sources, for example, may mean that a recreated regiment can never be certain that its clothes are identical to those worn by troops serving in the regiment in the past. Furthermore, for the reasons of cleanliness and safety, certain characteristics cannot be replicated. Most re-enactment groups attempt to compensate for these inescapable modern effects (such as the use of modern toilets rather than digging a trench and food carried from home rather than scavenged in a nearby village) by striving for a realistic representation in every other manner.
Answer for question 2: In the absence of an audience, mainstream reenactors make an effort to appear real, yet they may fall out of character. Hidden stitches and undergarments may not be period-appropriate, but visible stitches are likely to be made in a period-correct manner. Food served in front of an audience is likely to be historically accurate, although it may not be seasonally or geographically appropriate. Modern things are occasionally utilized "after hours" or in a covert manner. The normal approach is to put on a nice show, but correctness is only required to the extent that others can see it.
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Visitors to re-enactment activities obtain an understanding of a particular period. They gain an appreciation of how different life was in the past by simply asking questions, watching how food is prepared over a campfire, and looking at the tents that were used to sleep in. It's a true hands-on experience, since visitors are frequently allowed to sample food, touch uniforms to feel how heavy the cloth is, and learn about the steps involved in firing a musket. Through these contacts with the public, re-enactors pass on their expertise and perspective, making history very accessible. This is what distinguishes re-enactment from more traditional methods of teaching and learning history.
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Given the comparison made by Thoreau, we can say his opinion is the following:
D) Thoreau believes that most men live earthly, purely physical lives without time for higher, spiritual thoughts.
Explanation:
"It appeared to me that for a like reason men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life."
<u>Thoreau uses the numbness of the snake as a metaphor for the figurative numbness of men. The primitive state that he mentions above is a low state of consciousness, solely focused on material possessions and earthly pursuits that, to his mind, have no real purpose. Thoreau believes it is possible for men to reach higher intellectual and spiritual grounds. However, most of them seem to prefer the numbness.</u>
The first box is a dangling modifier. The second is a clause. The last is a phrase. (Answers going from top to bottom) :)
