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Declaration of the Rights of Man National Assembly of France (Governing the Good Life) Cicero's Letter to Atticus (Perseus Under Philologic) Cicero (Governing the Good Life) History of the Peloponnesian War (Pericles' Funeral Oration) Thucydides (Governing the Good Life) Antigone Sophocles (Fighting for the Good Life) The Prisoner Who Wore… VIEW ESSAY

Hyperbolic language: 2 mark and 1 example Showed seriousness of Verres' crimes Showed importance of the case (Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned) Relation to wider society: 3 marks Related corruption to society Prosecution would help society Evokes a decision against Verres Flattery:… VIEW ESSAY

solitude the state of being alone grope search blindly or uncertainly grate a frame of iron bars to hold a fire bygone belonging to an earlier time reverie (n) state of being lost in thought pathos a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) profound of the greatest intensity… VIEW ESSAY

BY CALLING THEIR ERA THE GILDED AGE, MARK TWAIN AND CHARLES WARNER WERE SOUNDING an alarm that beneath the surface corruption. AMERICA'S INDUSTRIALIZATION NOT ONLY MADE SOME PEOPLE WEALTHY; IT ALSO HELPED CREATE A GROWING middle class THE IDEAS OF PHILOSOPHER HERBERT SPENCER AND OTHERS APPLIED CHARLES DARWIN'S THEORY OF… VIEW ESSAY

Why did Mark Twain call the age of industry "the gilded age"? Because beneath that was political corropution who were the "old immigrants'? The "new immigrants"? Old immigrant are from Northwestern Europe , especially fromBritish Isles ,Germany, Scandinavian countries. New immigrants are from southern and easter Europe especially from Russia,… VIEW ESSAY

Mark Twain Was born on November 30, my birthday, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. His real name is Samuel Clemens. Mark Twain is only His pen name. His father died when he was 11, the next year he got a job as a writer for his local news paper. He was… VIEW ESSAY

who's the author? Mark Twain how old is the narrator? 41 (bachelor) how did the narrator lose his health? by helping to take care of a box of guns on a 200-mile railway journey one winter night where does the narrator belong? Cleveland, Ohio what's the first thing the narrator… VIEW ESSAY

Sterage Cramped quarters on a ship's lower deck for passengers paying the lowest fare nativism hostility towards immigrants immigrant person who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality ellis island a tiny island in new york harbor, european passengers disembarked here… VIEW ESSAY

to ask people fervently for God's help "beseeching His aid" a passionate way of writing or speaking "fervid eloquence" reckless spirits "rash spirits" descend from war-like dreams "alight with martial dreams" blow a war horn "Thunder thy clarion" begging for something humbly "supplication" good Father "benignant Father" large waterfall "frothy… VIEW ESSAY