What is the authors purpose in the passage above, and how does he achieve it through his organizational and choice of details?

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

Which sentence is the best translation of "you have displaced the mirth" broken the good meeting, / with most admired disorder"?

Nos tuvimos que separar porque nos . a. recién casados b. llevabamos muy mal c. amistad