English, 13.05.2021 17:20 marley5818
What is the most likely meaning of the phrase lower its sights as it is used in this passage?
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land; a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights.
1. inherit the mistakes of those who came before
2. perform jobs that no one else wants to do
3. settle for something less than originally strived for or hoped for
4. accept that sometimes progress is not an option
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English, 21.06.2019 18:30
When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?
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English, 22.06.2019 08:00
In at least 150 words, discuss the comparison described in the figurative language and how the connotative language reinforces the symbol. certainly the utmost rim of my first dome was filled with the tumultuous impression of soldiers marching to death for freedom's sake, of pioneers streaming westward to establish self-government in yet another sovereign state. only the great dome of st. peter's itself has ever clutched my heart as did that modest curve which had sequestered from infinitude in a place small enough for my child's mind, the courage and endurance which i could not comprehend so long as it was lost in "the void of unresponsible space" under the vaulting sky itself.
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What is the most likely meaning of the phrase lower its sights as it is used in this passage?
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