For this assignment, you will write an evaluation of “Is the World Falling Apart?” Reread the text. Then, read and answer the questions using evidence from the text to support your evaluation.

1. What is the author’s claim?

2. What reasons does the author provide to support the claim?

3. How well do the author’s reasons support the claim? Use evidence from the text that shows the reasons do or do not support the claim.

4. What evidence does the author use to support the reasons?

5. Does the evidence support the reasons? Does the author provide enough evidence to support the reasons? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man

Kafka originally referred to gregor's parents as “the mother” and “the father”. however, the translator refers to them as “his mother” and “his father”. why might the translator use “his” instead of “the”? a. the word “his” makes the story smoother to read in english. b. the word “his” allows gregor’s parents to become more central characters. c. the word “his” makes gregor’s parents sound less loving. d. the word “his” creates a more negative tone.

An example of was the way in which brutus was torn between his love for caesar and his love for rome