Part 1

Most people remember Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as reformers who practiced non-violent forms of protest and advocacy. Both effectively changed the popular opinion about emotional issues for their countries and brought in a wave of change that was long overdue. But the practice of non-violent protest, or civil disobedience, started long before either Gandhi or King. It began with a quiet, shy poet who is best known for writing a lot about a pond.

Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 until 1862, mainly in the area of Concord, Massachusetts. The issue that would tear the country apart in the 1860s had already begun dividing the nation. Thoreau was only 14 when Nat Turner led the slave rebellion in Virginia and was later hanged. In his late 20s, Thoreau began speaking against slavery in public, echoing the voices of freedmen like Frederick Douglass and Lewis Hayden.

Thoreau believed that a government that supported slavery was corrupt and immoral. He was also deeply suspicious of government. For these and other reasons, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax for a number of years. The poll tax was a legal tax owed by every person. It was basically a tax on one's body. After not paying for years, he was at last arrested. He spent only one night in jail, however, as a relative paid the tax for him. He was reportedly furious that any tax was paid on his behalf.

It was this experience that Thoreau wrote about in an essay called "Civil Disobedience." In this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to government. He wrote “If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." He also felt that voting was not enough to ensure that the right thing be done. He wrote that "even voting for the right is doing nothing for it… A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance…" He felt that one had a moral responsibility to resist unjust laws.

Read this line from the third paragraph:

For these and other reasons, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax for a number of years.

How does this sentence prepare readers for the final line of the paragraph?

It lets readers know his refusal to pay wasn't just a passing idea.
It lets readers know Thoreau was a thoughtful man.
It tells readers his reasons for refusal were not important.
It tells readers why Thoreau was not arrested for so long.

Answer: It tells readers his reasons for refusal were not important.

Explanation:

Because it is the only one that has evidence in the paragraph.

so is anyones brainly not working or is it just me

Which group in nineteenth-century America would likely be the most receptive audience for "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” clergy dock workers slave holders abolitionists

should men and women be treated equally? please give like kind of a detailed response, like a paragraph

Which are steps taken by the first emperor of a united China to unify the country

Fill in: bumpy, hang, treats, disappeared,
crashing.
1 Andy gave the dogs some................
when they finished the ride.
2 The country road is very.............
so drive slowly
3 After a couple of lessons, he finally got
the.............of it.
4 We could hear the water.................
down as we got closer to the waterfall.
5 Soon, his worries..................
and he enjoyed the trip.​

Select the correct answer.
Yasmin is writing a story about her first day of high school. Which sentence would most likely help her to develop multiple plot lines in the
narrative?
OA.
As I stepped off the bus, I looked around anxiously to find my best friend; but I was also thinking about the argument I'd had
with my mother the night before.
ОВ.
Ос.
I looked up to see the bright smile of my best friend waiting patiently for me by the tall glass doors of the school's entrance.
"Hey!" I greeted my best friend with a wave and rushed over to join her at a table in the bustling cafeteria.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I had no reason to be nervous about starting my high school years because I had great friends
and very supportive teachers.
OD.
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Write an essay explaining why being overconfident can sometimes result in disappointment.

What does a strong conclusion include? (5 points)
a
pictures
b
argumentation
с
new statistics
Od
logic

Which statement best describes the common experience of American Indians with the American landscape?

from The Beast
by Ben B. Lindsey and Harvey J. O’Higgins

The chief effect of the imagery and figures of speech in paragraph 15 is to
A. prolong the outcome of the events by building suspense
B. emphasize the authors’ tactful and methodical approach to presenting his case to the Board
C. highlight the Police Commissioner’s evil nature
D. provide the reader with a sense of the emotion surrounding the events without detailing specific horrors
E. justify to the reader why the children’s tales had to be told publicly

Patterns in data can serve as ____________________________________________________ to support a claim.

Which is the correct way to write the underlined portion of the following sentence?
The students hoped to quickly finish the test so they would be able to work cooperatively on their projects.
to finish the test quickly so they would be able to cooperatively work on their projects
to quickly finish the test so they would be able to cooperatively work on their projects
O to finish the test quickly so they would be able to work cooperatively on their projects
O Leave as is.

What are two roles of the third paragraph in the passage?

The skin I'm in {Chapter 19 & 20}
Why does Miss Saunders get upset when she is talking to Tai?

Earlier Macbeth was against killing the king, until his wife persuaded him. Reread his soliloquy from Act 1 and compare it with the soliloquy you have read in Act 2, using the table below.

Black snake! Black snake!

Curling on the ground,

Rolled like a rubber tire,

Ribbed and round.

Question 3 options:
A. simile

B. Metaphor

C. None of these

Read the following passage:
People always tell me how much I look like my mother, and
I take that as a compliment. But in our new home, I was
realizing that her hair was so ... different. It didn't look as
beautiful to me anymore, and I didn't want the kids at
school to think I was strange. I tried to wake up early and
do my hair and then rush out of the house before she
would notice the change.
Which best explains how this passage develops the narrator's internal
conflict?
O A. It illustrates the tension between the narrator and her mother.
O B. It explores the narrator's struggle to accept her own appearance.
O c. It implies that the kids at school have been teasing the narrator.
O D. It shows that the narrator regrets moving to a place with a
different culture.

Henry misinterperted the writing instuctions for the assignement and wrote an expository parer instead what dose misinterpreted most likely mean

Why did the framers of our Constitution create the Electoral College rather than have direct popular elections for president?

Avery would like to include an interactive element in a blog post persuading readers to try yoga. Which would most enhance her post?

a quiz about the history of yoga
a poll to find readers’ favorite yoga pose
a question about readers’ knowledge of yoga trivia
a request for comments from yoga fans

CLIC
What is one of the central ideas of the selection?
O Players might try to hurt Jackie Robinson.
O Branch Rickey had to find the right man for the job, and that man was Jackie Robinson.
O Branch Rickey looked into the players' characters.
Jackie Robinson was a talented athlete.

what is grammar and English ?​

How can assumptions limit your perception of the world in a detrimental way

Nothing to see here.
Have a good thanksgiving.

How can you write a convincing argument about the value of goal-setting for a job?

At which point in the story does the reader learn that Farquhar has died?

Which word does not belong in the sequence: (brainliest!!)
proper, stone, seventy, swing, carrot, travel, change, brawl, sacred?

what are the obstacles faced by the old lady phones jackson on her way to town​

The girl ____(push) some body . Simple present tense


He____(pay) me well
simple present tense




Please answer

"if you can keep your head when all about you

are losing theirs blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in the lies,

Or being hated, don't give away to hating,

And yet don't look to good, nor talk to wide:

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;

If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold o"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And-which is more- you'll be a man, my son."
In the poem I just showed you I can't find any metaphors I need two of them please help me