Please help I suck at English

Read the passage and answer the question.

[1]Nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the
tree yuccas.Tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that
triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the Sierras and coastwise hills. The
yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old
[5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. After its death, which is
slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even
the moonlight fearful. But it isn't always this way. Before the yucca has come to flower, while
yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of
sugary sap, the Indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their
[10] own delectation.

Why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree?

To create an image of the sharp edges of the plant
To emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are
To explain when and where the plant grows
To show how afraid the author is of the plant

Answer:

to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant

Explanation:

because in the poem it says that

Castaways, we are castaways, ahoy there, we are castaways
were stuck where we are
with no house
no car
castaways
ahoy there

Read the passage below and complete the instruction that follows.



I love to wear my sneakers. My favorite pair is completely worn out.



Identify the sentence that correctly combines the above passage into a compound sentence.

I love to wear my sneakers, but my favorite pair is completely worn out.
Although my favorite pair is completely worn out, I love to wear my sneakers.
I love to wear my sneakers, my favorite pair is completely worn out.
I love to wear my sneakers; but my favorite pair is completely worn out.

Who taught Gatsby to be a dignified man?

"At all events I assure you I don't waste money unprofitably. But I can't find it in my heart to deny myself the pleasure of entertaining my friends. I need that sort of thing,you know. I have lived for so long shut out of it all, that it is a necessity of life to me to mix with young, eager, ambitious men, men of liberal and active minds;:"(Dr. Stockman)
a
Dr. Stockman is only concerned about having a good time and not about the welfare of the people
b
Dr. Stockman is a man that needs people around him who approve of and love him
c
Dr. Stockman is essentially a hermit at heart but must entertain people he is to be accepted in the community
d
Dr. Stockman wants eager minds around him so they can do his work for him

Review the 10 commandments the animals made immediately after rebelling from the farm. Pick two commandments the animals have violated. What is their reasoning for violating these commandments? Explain what happens when these commandments are violated.

Read this sentence from the story:
It was their thought that Old Kinoos had lost the sight of his eyes from age; nor did Old Kinoos say otherwise, nor did I, his daughter. Old Kinoos is a
brave man, but Old Kinoos was never a boaster.
Which sentence best summarizes this section? (1 point)
O a
Both the old man and the girl are blind, but neither one will reveal how their blindness really happened.
Ob
с
People think the daughter's blindness was caused by age; she won't reveal how it really happened.
People think the old man's blindness is caused by age; neither he nor his daughter will tell how it happened.
People think the old man lost his eyesight in a fight, but the daughter won't tell how it really happened.
Od

What is the function of the fictional author's input into the story?

which expert from the odyssey best shows odysseus Demonstrating the epic hero traits of strength and leader ship

Anyone familiar with Daughter of Invention story? English help please. Thank you! It has to do with the story "Daughter of invention" .PART A: Which TWO statements describe the main themes of the story?

(100 Points NEED ASAP)
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells [1898]

But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)


BOOK ONE: THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS

CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt


No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.


Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.


The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.


And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.


What key idea does the text below suggest?


The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.


As their situation grew worse, their course became clear and they lost any compassion.

The growing doom consumed all their power to confront it.

Their immediate needs made them more intelligent than they had been before.

Their intelligence gave them less compassion than less intelligent others.

An author wants to show that a character is old and nearing his or her death. What season would be an appropriate setting to introduce the character to the audience? (5 points)

Which of the following does Douglass NOT say regarding slavery?
A
There is no doubt that slaves are equally human as their owners.
wd
B
Men who have been worked like beasts come to act like them.
ie
Slavery comes from men, not from God, and is not blessed by God.
D
It is easy to understand why slavery is morally wrong and unjust.