Dozens of local musicians showed up yesterday to participate in the fourth annual Celebration of Music Education. It was held at the downtown public library. Musicians were between the ages of 11 and 17. The event is put on each year to raise awareness of the benefits of music education programs. The celebration also raises money to help fund these programs. Each participant played a song that he or she wrote for the program. Musicians appeared solo and as parts of larger groups. Song subjects varied from a favorite Popsicle flavor to the difficulty of succeeding on final exams. Several songs were even about the meaning of life. These kids were talented! Many in the audience were tapping their feet to the beat.
Several civic leaders were in attendance. They were there to show their support for the important cause. Mayor Trisha McGown spoke during a break between musical acts. She said, “These children are our future. I want to be certain that the creative abilities of these kids are properly cultivated before they lead the world.”
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Read the following sentence from excerpt of the narrative of the live of frederick douglass and define the bolded word: "why master was so careful of her, may be safely let to conjecture." question 10 options: a) prayer or hope b) guesswork or speculation c) relief or ease d) disapproval or disappointment

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Read juliet's soliloquy from act iv, scene iii. based on her dialogue, explain the conflict that juliet faces. is the conflict primarily external or internal? explain why.