Read this excerpt from the land. robert’s grandma on his mama’s side always hated the fact that my daddy allowed cassie and me to sit at his table and enjoy the life she felt was owed only to her daughter’s children. when the daughter died, her mother was there in my daddy’s house. of course, i was only a baby at the time, but later i grew to know her hatred. she had stayed on in my daddy’s house and took over running it. i remember she was always hard on my mama, and on cassie and me. when my daddy was away during mealtime, she would send cassie and me from the table. when that happened, robert always went with me, and she couldn’t make him come back. worse than that, she would sometimes say cruel things to us. “they’re like mites,” she said once. “you get them in your bed, and you don’t ever get rid of them.” what is the best way to summarize how the author uses theme in the excerpt?

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir