Read the excerpt from Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Death by Black Hole.
All parts of your body are moving toward the same spot-the black hole's center. So while you're getting ripped apart
head to toe, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube.
Read the excerpt from Billy Collins's "Man Listening to Disc."
This is not bad-
ambling along 44th Street
with Sonny Rollins for company,
his music flowing through the soft calipers
of these earphones,
Which of the following ideas is presented in both excerpts?

- The human body is being moved along by an outside force.

Explanation:

'Death by Black Hole' authored by Neil deGrasse Tyson details the significance of our senses in advancing the scientific understanding while Billy Collins's 'Man Listening to Disc' discusses the sensory impressions evoked through music('jazz').

As per the question, the key idea that is being discussed in both the given excerpts would be 'the human body is being moved through an outside force('black hole' in the first and 'music' in the second). The idea is clearly reflected by the phrases 'parts of...body moving towards the same spot' and 'music flowing through the soft calipers.' Both the authors have excellently employed 'imagery' to provide a sensory experience to the readers how the human body is being dislocated by the external forces.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

answer: c

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