Read the passage. Paraphrase the central idea. Giuseppe and I held tightly to Stepfather’s hands, while Liberta and Helvetia clung to Mother. Passengers all about us were crowding against the rail. Jabbered conversations, sharp cries, laughs and cheers – a steadily rising din filled the air. Mothers and fathers lifted up babies so that they too could see, off to the left, the Statue of Liberty.

—Edward Corsi, Italian Immigrant,
from Immigrant Kids,
Russell Freedman

What is one way that the author makes a distinction between the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental passenger flights in 1936

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

The associated press is a wire service in of news around the world. 1.portable 2.importer 3.reporter 4.transport which will fill in the blank need plz