Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Fifth, they desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic advancement and social security; This statement is based on the assumption that
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want; This statement is based on the assumption that
Which excerpt from O’Connor’s “Good Country People” best reveals the irony of the main character’s name, Joy?
Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby . My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion. How does Fitzgerald use setting in the exposition of this passage?
Read the excerpt. Mrs. Carter often explained to visitors how fortunate she had been to find the Wilkes family. They had stayed on her land longer than anyone before them, nearly five years now, and she considered that a rare blessing. Before their arrival, families came and went with each passing season, never settling long enough to be dependable. Since her husband had left years ago, Mrs. Carter depended on someone to help her walk the property lines and check the distant fences. When her daughter, Ellen, was asked to help instead, she would trudge along reluctantly, her expression sour and her replies clipped. “If you don’t want my help, just say so,” she would mutter. Mrs. Carter would sigh and wish, not for the first time, that someone else could share the burden of such a large and lonely stretch of land. Based on the excerpt, what inferences can be made about the story’s setting?
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