Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.
1.) It is easy to write the line "people starve to death"; it is much harder to deal with the harsh reality. 2.) But you need to understand this point, if only to see how little choice you might have in what you eat. 3.) The itinerant poor might literally die in the street.
In what way is the second sentence effective?
A. It highlights the number of impoverished people in Elizabethan England.
B. It explains how the reader can avoid dealing with the hungry poor.
C. It illustrates how the diet of Elizabethan England can benefit the reader.
D. It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.

D. It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.

Explanation:

Ian Mortimer's "The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England" takes us back to the days of Elizabethan England which was considered to be the golden age. Imagining what it must be like to be actually living in that era, Mortimer's text brings back the past to life.

The second sentence in the excerpt talks of how different and unconditional things can be in that age, especially regarding what a person eats. By implying that we as readers, "need to understand" the harsh reality of the people's lives in poverty. This sentence lay emphasis on why the passage is important for us readers to understand it personally.

i remeber a bit, but i don't have the exact qoute.

it said that everytime you chopped a head off a new one grew in it's place.

explanation:

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.