Read the paragraph from “Rivers and Stories,” Part 1. Though the names are still magic—Amazon, Congo, Mississippi, Niger, Plate, Volga, Tiber, Seine, Ganges, Mekong, Rhine, Colorado, Marne, Orinoco, Rio Grande—the rivers themselves have almost disappeared from consciousness in the modern world. Insofar as they exist in our imaginations, that existence is nostalgic. We have turned our memory of the Mississippi into a Mark Twain theme park at Disneyland. Our railroads followed the contours of the rivers and then our highways followed the contours of the rail lines. Traveling, we move as a river moves, at two removes. Our children don’t know where their electricity comes from, they don’t know where the water they drink comes from, and in many places on the earth the turgid backwaters of dammed rivers are inflicting on local children an epidemic of the old riverside diseases: dysentery, schistosomiasis, “river blindness.” Rivers and the river gods that defined our civilizations have become the sublimated symbols of everything we have done to the planet in the last two hundred years. And the rivers themselves have come to function as trace memories of what we have repressed in the name of our technical mastery. They are the ecological unconscious.

Which pieces of evidence best help you to identify the author’s perspective on the topic discussed in the paragraph: that rivers should be respected more?

The author describes the memories of rivers as nostalgic.

The author describes how railroads and highways replaced rivers.

The author describes the names of rivers as “magic.”

The author describes how children don’t know what rivers are used for.

The author describes the names of rivers as “magic.”

The author describes how children don’t know what rivers are used for.

Explanation:

According to the paragraph from “Rivers and Stories,” Part 1, the narrator is of the opinion that rivers have lost some of their magic, no thanks to an ever developing world and technology and more people do not even know where the water they drink, come from.

The pieces of evidence that best help to identify the author’s perspective on the topic discussed in the paragraph: that rivers should be respected more are The author describes the names of rivers as “magic.”

The author describes how children don’t know what rivers are used for.

  the conflict is the challenge the main character need to solve to achieve their goals, is the major literary element because creates challenges in the story by addin uncertainty to if the goal would be achieved. in the story could be more than a single conflict, in fact, most of the stories have a diversity of them. the resolution creates a closure that may or may not be the end of the story.

  the basic types of conflict have been classified as "person againsta nature", "person against person" and "persona against self". nevertheless the basic types, some authors think that it could be more than only three types, for instance:

  i´m gonna give you a little summary about the three basic types that i think are the one importants for the question

  the confict involves stories where characters are against each other, is an external conflict, as in a gun fight or a robbery or it could be more subtle between the desires of the characters as in a love story. this type of conflict is very common in traditional literature, fairy tales and myths.

  is an external conflict between the character and an animal or a force of nature, like a tornado,a storm or even a rain. a great example of this is ernest hemingway´s "the old man and the sea"   in which the main character struggle with a marlin when he was fishing.

  in this case the conflict is internal, the character must overcome her or his own nature or make a choice between two paths.

  i hope the answer is correct and you. regards

this is b. how railways dealt with people riding the trains without paying