Identify the subject in each of the following sentences (who or what the sentence is about): A sneaky rat named Scratch was pilfering food from the pantry.
1. Suddenly, the rat heard a low growl and a hiss.
2. Scratch bolted as fast as he could.
3. Captain Meow, the black tomcat, raced at Scratch's heels.
4. Just in time, the brown rat scurried into his hole.

henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.

two 125 kg bumper cars are moving toward each other in opposite directions. car x is moving at 10 m/s and car z at −12 m/s when they collide head-on. if the resulting velocity of car z after the collision is 10 m/s, what is the velocity of car x after the collision?