Combine the following sentences using appropriate conjunctions to have just one sentence. Brazil was colonized. c) Brazil’s culture has been influenced by this fact.

b) The colonists were Europeans. d) The influence has been great.

"night. no one was praying for the night to pass quickly. the stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." explain the images included in the passage. how is the use of the image of night contradictory to how we might expect it to be used