Please help ASAP! I don’t know how to do this!

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

"ten from the sea to the sand he walks,to look in the soil, but not in the box''!

Which sentence does not contain an intensive pronoun? a) i guess i will just take out the trash myself. b) while treating herself to lunch, angie ran into an old friend. c) tony himself made dinner last night even though he hates to cook. d) lisa wondered if she herself was the one who left the oven on all day.