Explanation:
Although Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, America—and especially the South—was still struggling with racism and the aftereffects of slavery. By the early 1880s, Reconstruction, the plan to put the United States back together after the war and integrate freed slaves into society, had hit shaky ground, although it had not yet failed outright. As Twain worked on his novel, race relations, which seemed to be on a positive path in the years following the Civil War, once again became strained
The correct answer is <span>a. especially greedy. The Pardoner doesn't even hide his own avarice. People who want to get a pardon for their sins must pay him. He is also selling many false relics. And he really likes to brag about it, still telling his fellow travelers that avarice is a sin.</span>
Answer:
There are quite a number of units to measure speed and depending on how fast an object is going, some are more preferred than others.
The units are:
- Metres per second - this is on of the most common units and is regularly used by runners.
- Kilometres per hour - used by cars, buses and generally objects that move adequately fast.
- Miles per hour - this is a substitute to kilometers per hour for countries using the imperial system or miles instead of kilometers.
- Knots - Represent nautical miles and are a unit of speed mostly used to measure wind and water speed.
- Feet per second - Not as popular but used in countries that don't regularly use metres.
- Mach number - for really fast objects going faster than sound.
The correct answer is "John Steinbeck"
He was a famous American novelist, born in California, who depicted lives of regular Californian people, including folklore and symbolism, and other aspects of various traditions. He won the Nobel prize for his novel East of Eden.
