I have reckoned upon a medium that a child just born will
weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed,
will increase to 28 pounds
grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very
proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured
most of the parents seem to have the best title to the
children
Based on this excerpt what is most likely the opinion of the author (but not
the narrator)?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

How does hughes’ poem, “let america be america again,” represent the idea of the failure of the american dream?

Peter van daan arrived at nine-thirty in the morning (while we were still at breakfast). peter's going on sixteen, a shy, awkward boy whose company won't amount to much. mr. and mrs. van daan came half an hour later. in both the diary and the play the diary of anne frank, how is peter portrayed when he first comes to the annex?