Read the excerpt below:
"i like pond skating best by moonlight. the hollow among the hills will always
have a bit of mist about it, let the sky be clear as it may. the moonlight, which
seems so lucid and brilliant when you look up, is all pearl and smoke round the
pond and the hills. the shore that was like iron under your heel as you came
down to the ice is vague, when you look back at it from the center of the pond,
as the memory of a dream. the motion is like flying in a dream; you float free and
the world floats under you; your velocity is without effort and without
accomplishment, for, speed as you may, you leave nothing behind and approach
nothing.
from what type of essay was this selection taken?
a) poetry
b) short story
c) play
d) none the answer choices are correct

Explain how advancements in technology have affected the diversity of our news, how we receive it, and how it is portrayed by the media.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?

Mr. underwood's editorial defending tom robinson is surprising because he's described as not wanting to be near negroes it's a dangerous stance to take at that time he had been neutral during the trial he wasn't in the courtroom