Ruth made a special point of being nice to children. He would visit them in orphanages and hospitals. Later in life, when he was seriously ill himself, he expressed sympathy for youngsters who were suffering. His
friends often remarked that Ruth seemed most at ease with children, feeling no need at all to prove himself
to them, perhaps because in some ways he was almost "one of them." Or as he himself once put it," I got as
much of a kick out of them as they seemed to receive from their meetings with me.

Read the excerpt from a history of the world in 100 objects. power is usually not willingly given, but forcefully taken; and in both europe and america the nineteenth century was punctuated by political protest, with periodic revolutions on the continent, the civil war in america and, in britain, a steady struggle to widen the suffrage. what would be a benefit of reading this text rather than listening to an audio version of it? the reader could analyze the text features in the excerpt. the reader could visualize the description given. the reader could set his or her own pace and reread parts for clarity. the reader could hear the sounds of the political protest.

The truck driver backed his vehicle between two buildings, he did not have an inch to spare on either side. fragment, run on, or complete sentence?

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.