"my lady, never a man in the wide world
should have a fault to find with you. your name
has gone out under heaven like the sweet
honor of some god-fearing king, who rules
in equity over the strong: his black lands bear
both wheat and barley, fruit trees laden bright,
new lambs at lambing time—and the deep sea
gives great hauls of fish by his good strategy,
his folk fare well.”

based on the epic simile, the reader should envision penelope as a queen who is

conscientious.
decisive.
judgmental.
righteous.

What do you think about world hunger? what could we do to make it better or fix it to where people are getting the things they need? what would you do?

How are key ideas refined with clear and concise language in the selection “what are our demands? ” what purpose does this selection serve?

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.