Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of the travels of marco polo. now that i have described the ships in which merchants voyage to and from india, let us change the subject and pass on to india itself. but first i will tell you of many islands that lie towards the east in this ocean at which we have now arrived. we shall begin with an island that is called japan. japan is an island far out at sea to the eastward, some 1,500 miles from the mainland. it is a very big island. the people are fair-complexioned, good-looking, and well-mannered. they are idolaters, wholly independent and exercising no authority over any nation but themselves. which sentence best reflects the author’s subjective perspective on the people of japan? a) the people of japan live 1,500 miles from the mainland. b) the people of japan live on an island. c) the people of japan are good-looking and well-mannered. d) the people of japan exercise no authority over other nations.

Mr and mrs van daan murmur their welcome what are the playwrights indicating by using the word murmur?

How did the industrial revolution shape the beliefs of the romantics

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.