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38. Choose two reading selections from below to compare and contrast. In answering the essay question, it may be helpful to use the list below of major selections.

Selections include the following:

"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant"
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Poems of Passage
My Forbidden Face
Introduction to Shelf Life
"The Scarlet Ibis"
Riding the Bus with My Sister
Poems of Mothers and Grandmothers
"My Brother's Keeper"
"The Interlopers"
Of Wolves and Men
Poems of Nature
An Inconvenient Truth
Tsunami 2004
The Birds
"A Sound of Thunder"
"Nethergrave"
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
"Borders"
"Delfino II: Diez in the Desert"
Poems across the Divide
"Hip-Hop Planet"
"Ka' Ba"
"Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird"
Your answer should include similarities and differences for the following:
theme
plot
setting
major characters
tone
genre (nonfiction, memoir, etc.)

You suspect that this article has left out some facts that might lead the reader to believe that someone else made the star-spangled banner. what is the best way to verify this? by consulting a variety of sources by disregarding the article entirely by writing a letter to the editor of the publication that printed the article by reading various historical accounts by verifying the opinions

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

Excerpt from incredible oceans roberto barerra (1) the five major oceans—the arctic, the atlantic, the indian, the pacific, and the southern, which are then broken down into smaller seas—provide food for humans and animals, entice explorers, enable trade, and affect the climate and environment the world over. in this sentence from paragraph 1, the word entice means a) amaze. b) attract. c) exhaust. d) feed.