Read this excerpt from "a 400-year-old woman" in the writer and her work by bharati mukherjee and answer the question.

yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. … for all the hope and energy i have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation – i’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now i’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels – there are parts of me that remain indian.

what words in the above excerpt demonstrate humor in satire?

"i’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now i’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels."
"– there are parts of me that remain indian."
"yet my imaginative home is also in the tales told by my mother and grandmother. "
"for all the hope and energy i have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation "

Read this excerpt from "edward jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination.” smallpox was introduced to europe sometime between the fifth and seventh centuries and was frequently epidemic during the middle ages. the disease greatly affected the development of western civilization. the first stages of the decline of the roman empire (ad 108) coincided with a large-scale epidemic: the plague of antonine, which accounted for the deaths of almost 7 million people. the arab expansion, the crusades, and the discovery of the west indies all contributed to the spread of the disease. unknown in the new world, smallpox was introduced by the spanish and portuguese conquistadors. the disease decimated the local population and was instrumental in the fall of the empires of the aztecs and the incas. similarly, on the eastern coast of north america, the disease was introduced by the early settlers and led to a decline in the native population. before it reached the new world, smallpox played a role in