Select two details from passage 1 that demonstrate how queen elizabeth uses rhetoric to motivate her troops.
"we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit
ourselves to armed "
" do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people."
"to lay down for my god, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in
dust
"i have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of england too,"
"in the mean time, my lieutenant general shall be in my stead..

"to tell it right, it was through you i found my life and breathed again, and then through you my eyesight failed." this quote is from oedipus the king, explain why it's significant, paying special attention to word choice, figurative language, and the larger themes it reflects.

Hamlet is often called a tragic hero who is torn between thought and action. why does he not kill claudius when he sees him in act iii, scene iii? why does he kill polonius in act iii, scene iv? how do these two actions affect your understanding of hamlet as a man of thought or a man of action? your answer should be at least 250 words.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.