HELP PLZ DUE NOW! Read the excerpt from "A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.”

She would go to the big library uptown and I now know
Hat in hand to ask to borrow so that I might borrow...
But she nonetheless brought the books
Back and I held them to my chest
Close to my heart

How does the time period in which the poem takes place contribute to the reader’s understanding of this excerpt?

It shows how books provided the speaker with an escape from social injustices.
It illustrates how involved people were with the social conflicts in society and what they did to overcome them.
It gives the reader a clear picture of what Mrs. Long considered to be the most important issues of her day.
It provides specific details about what the speaker and the people in her community thought about civil rights.

It shows how books provided the speaker with an escape from social injustices.

Explanation:

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1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.