Explain if it is a benevolent or dangerous power that bans, censors, or exiles? Over the course of history, many writers have wanted to expose the flaws they saw in government or society, even if it meant risking exile or worse. Because of this, they have often taken great pains to conceal their identity. Swift published all of his works anonymously or under pseudonyms to avoid punishment. Authors can still be punished in some countries for what they write. Even in the United States, some books are actually banned. In this activity, you'll start a unit-long research argument assignment that investigates whether it is a benevolent or dangerous power that bans, censors, or exiles. You'll establish a research question, start gathering sources, and create an outline.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning