English, 27.01.2020 14:31 tmoneytj28
My father had a small estate in nottinghamshire; i was the third of five sons. he sent me to emanuel college in cambridge, at fourteen years old, where i resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me, although i had a very scanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, i was bound to apprentice to mr. james bates, an eminent surgeon in london, with whom i continued four years; and my father now and then sending me small sums of money, i laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as i always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
what would be the best suggestion to give jonathan swift to improve the narrator’s reliability in the above passage?
remove all references to gulliver’s home, family, and youth.
remove the reference to “learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics.”
explain the background of the statement, “as i always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.”
provide more description of mr. james bates, both his appearance and personality.
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English, 22.06.2019 12:00
Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.
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English, 22.06.2019 14:00
Which sentence in this excerpt from "in another country " by ernest hemingway is an example of irony?
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English, 22.06.2019 14:30
It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.
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