Read the following excerpt from a portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce what aspect of this excerpt most clearly marks it as a work of modernism a. it focuses on a main character who is the antithesis of a traditional hero b. it observes human nature through athletics rather than academics c. it jumps from one topic to another without making any attempt to connect them d. it presents the topic of competition from two completely different perspectives

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

What is the best strategy for responding to counter-arguments in your persuasive research essay ?

One conclusion that a reader might draw from the excerpt from "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella" is that the man with the umbrella is persistent in his mission. provide two details from the text to support this conclusion.