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What is walt whitman's poem "when i heard the learn'd astronomer about?

The idea of manifest destiny simply stated it was america's destiny to expand from the atlantic ocean to the pacific. the word "destiny" implies an idea that it was within our rights as a nation to expand. in a paragraph of 125+ words, explain what could be wrong with that idea.

Synthesizing new ideas from a speaker with what one already knows about the subject to see if the information makes sense is an example of a.questioning and challenging b.identifying differences c. forming a statement d.seeing the boader context