<span>"The Gift of the Magi"
Della is devoted to her husband. Her unconditional love for him is shown
when she chopped off her prize long beautiful hair, in order to buy him a new
strap for his old watch. Meanwhile, Jim
also shows his devotion and love for his wife, when he traded his watch for Della's new comb. Their love for each other made them even stronger, as
they sacrificed their most prized possession for the other person’s happiness.</span>
Answer:
The King makes an acknowledgement of the distinction between “just and unjust” laws . He insists that everyone has a “legal” and “moral responsibility” to follow just laws, but that one equally “has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”. He cites St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas to justify this latter claim.
Explanation:
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<span>Richie had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room. . . . He thought he recognized the feeling from his childhood, when he felt it everyday and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes . . . .
Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . .
Source: King, Stephen. It. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.</span>
Answer:
D. 4
Explanation:
A gentleman is a man who does not cower to outside forces, he is strong and true to his word. He does the right thing, even if the right thing does not seem the popular thing. His strength of character is apparent in his presence as he enters a room and exerts not arrogance, but confidence that is contagious to others. A true gentleman never lacks a friend, because a true gentleman is a friend. The word 'Gentle' in gentleman is not in the sense that he is soft, but that with his confidence and aura, others might feel comfortable in his presence
The author of "My Brother's Keeper" emphasizes Jaime's conflict by flashing back to earlier events with his brother Ted.
In "My Brother's Keeper", the author includes the line "and Jaime thought to himself, this time it must be bad" in Jamie's phone conversation with Ted in order to develop Ted as a character who often is in trouble.
