Answer:
The excerpt supports the cultural idea that:
People should be helpful toward others.
The part of the excerpt where the boy is throwing starfish back into the ocean, despite the vast number of starfish and skepticism from others, conveys the message that individual actions, no matter how small, can have a positive impact on others and the world. This idea aligns with the cultural value of kindness, compassion, and the willingness to help those in need.
Explanation:
b. false
Answer:
She seemed to understand the problem completely.
Explanation:
The infinitive 'to understand' is not split by any descriptors.
Answer:
The speaker's point of view in the poem "In My Mind" by Kate Engelbert is that of a first person.
Explanation:
The poem "In My Mind" by Kate Engelbert uses the first person narrative form where the poet utilizes the use of "I" "Me" "My" etc. In the poem, she is having an internal conflict on whether to go inside the door or just not. She is in a dilemma as to how the people from the other side of the door will react to her presence,
"Will they understand who I am?
Not the act I perform around them,
But the real me?
Then I think,
Do I want them to?"
Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice. Oppression is often the CONSEQUENCE, but seldom or never the MEANS of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
But there is another and greater distinction, for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.
What is Thomas Paine's central claim in this excerpt?
There will always be a distinction between kings and their subjects.
The equality that humans enjoyed during creation has been ruined because of war and famine.
Not all people who belonged to the upper sections of society were cruel.
The differences between the kings and the subjects were not religious or natural.
The answer is
B) The equality that humans enjoyed during creation has been ruined because of war and famine.