C
Explanation: No citations should be used in a conclusion, crossing out B. A would be a good intro, and D would make a good body paragraph.
The question is incomplete and the full version can be found online.
Answer:
To emphasize the seriousness of what is about to happen.
Explanation:
In "Big finish," by Erin Michelle Jendras, when the woman on the screen gets quiet as soon as the numbers get to ten, she does so because it´s time for the final countdown. As soon as the count gets to zero, the reader will discover that Terra, the planet earth humans had to escape years before, is being destroyed. The sudden silence of the woman broadcasting the live event is a small detail that makes it clear that what´s about to happen is an important event.
The Maasai are thought of as the typical cattle herders of Africa, yet they have not always been herders, nor are they all today. Because of population growth, development strategies, and the resulting shortage of land, cattle raising is in decline. However, cattle still represent "the breath of life" for many Maasai. When given the chance, they choose herding above all other livelihoods. For many Westerners, the Maasai are Hollywood's "noble savage"—fierce, proud, handsome, graceful of bearing, and elegantly tall. Hair smeared red with ochre (a pigment), they either carry spears or stand on one foot tending cattle. These depictions oversimplify Maasai life during the twentieth century. Today, Maasai cattle herders may also be growing maize (corn) or wheat, rearing Guinea fowl, raising ostriches, or may be hired by ecologists to take pictures of the countryside.
Prior to British colonization, Africans, Arabs, and European explorers considered the Maasai formidable warriors for their conquests of neighboring peoples and their resistance to slavery. Caravan traders traveling from the coast to Uganda crossed Maasailandwith trepidation. However, in 1880–81, when the British unintentionally introduced rinderpest (a cattle disease), the Maasai lost 80 percent of their stock. The British colonizers further disrupted Maasai life by moving them to a reserve in southern Kenya. While the British encouraged them to adopt European ways, they also advised them to retain their traditions. These contradictions resulted, for the most part, in leaving the Maasai alone and allowed them to develop almost on their own. However, drought, famine, cattle diseases, and intratribal warfare (warfare among themselves) in the nineteenth century greatly weakened the Maasai and nearly destrtoyed certain tribes.
<span>
Read more: <span>http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Tajikistan-to-Zimbabwe/Maasai.html#ixzz4lDPcYFKL</span></span>
Literal language means exactly what it says, while figurative language uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different. See the examples below.
