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read this quotation from “the writing on the wall.”

imagine you have traveled on a ship from china to america. imagine it is sometime between 1910 and 1940, and you may or may not know the man who you will call your father when you arrive in the new country whose language you likely do not know. imagine that when you arrive . . you are taken to . . angel island.

which of the following is a reasonable conclusion to draw from this quotation?

a. angel island was used as an immigration station from at least 1910 until at least 1940.
b. some chinese immigrants were quite fluent in english and adapted easily.
c. immigration from china to the united states was unrestricted after 1940.
d. immigration from china to the united states became severely restricted in 1910.

The messenger says that the play the audience is about to see teaches that (mark all that apply.): life is transitory pleasure and jollity are no in the grave strength and pleasure are when man "lieth in clay" everyman will be called to a reckoning of his life this is a comic play

Which two statements are the most likely interpretations of macbeth's behavior in act iii's banquet scene?

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm