The purpose of the rhetorical question in this excerpt is that, there is still unreckoned is that gigantic financial cost and who will pay for it.
This excerpt is from Opinion: Rescued Antarctic Group Aren't Heroes -The passengers aboard the stranded ship felt oddly entitled, writer argues. It seems unlikely that the rookies who signed up for AAE 2013-14 would soon hand over the money to pay for their perilous and expensive rescue. They're still too busy congratulating themselves. When the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck within the ice off the Antarctic coast on Christmas Eve, it created a drama that quickly grabbed the world's attention.
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Answer:
A sentence fragment.
Explanation:
All sentences must have a subject, a verb, and an object.
He (Subject)
Giggled (Verb)
Missing: Object (Why did he giggle?
(He) (giggled) ( because he thought it was funny.) (Sentence)
(He) - Subject
(giggled) - Verb
( because he thought it was funny.) - Object , it told me why he giggled.
"<span>But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood, Explaining Metaphysics to the nation-- I wish he would explain his Explanation.</span>" > criticizes the subject for confusing his audience
"…he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. " > criticizes the subject for his half baked knowledge
"He was a mighty poet—and A subtle-souled Psychologist; All things he seemed to understand Of old or new—of sea or land— But his own mind—which was a mist." > Criticizes the subject for having abundant knowledge of the world but low self-awareness
Answer:
Option D
Explanation:
I silently counted on my fingers: twenty-eight days until the end of September, then on into October until the first frost. Frost always killed fever. Mr. Carris said it drained the poison from the air. This referenced the idea that the frost would kill the epidemic.
<em>Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned.Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern,... disappearing with the first hard frost.</em>
<em>Daniel Defoe, in recording the end of the Black Death that visited London in 1665, wrote that "the winter weather came ,most of those that had fallen sick recovered, and the health of the city began to return."</em>
<span>The Wife of Bath's tale was written to show the emerging role of women in the Middle Ages. They were moving from being submissive, almost property, to sovereign women with strong opinions and independence. These characteristics were, at the time, only appreciated in men and were frowned on in women. This tale shows that a woman can be a woman and still be independent, strong, and sovereign.</span>
