In samuel taylor coleridge's "the rime of the ancient mariner," why does the albatross finally fall from the mariner's neck? the mariner has finished telling his story to the wedding guest. the mariner is free from the judgment of his shipmates, after they all die. the mariner has learned to love creatures besides humans. the mariner drops it into the water as bait while hunting water snakes.

How does the allusion to icarus support the author’s tone ? a)it makes it clear that earhart,like icarus ,fell to her death .b)it emphasizes earhart’s failure in spite of her ambition.c)it stresses that the author views earhart’s fate as a mystery.d)it shows that the author sees earhart as a kind of legend can someone

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?