What is the best way to combine Sentences 14 and 15? 1: I thought about napkins for a long time I could not come up with something magnificent.

2: I thought about napkins for a long time, and I could not come up with something magnificent.

3: I thought about napkins for a long time, so I could not come up with something magnificent.

4: I thought about napkins for a long time, but I could not come up with something magnificent.

Ineed the answer asap composition or ideas about "the day i ran away" with 500 words

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

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a.sailing b.suitors c.hunting d.dreams