Which phrase from “the second coming” would be the best symbolic description of the massacre at abame in the novel?

a) the centre cannot hold
b) the widening gyre
c) the blood-dimmed tide
d) a rocking cradle

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

c) problem and solution

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.