Read the sentence from "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty." "In advance of this year's Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, the legions of men and women who have served in our nation's military received some welcoming news: Congress finally agreed to fund the VA Mission Act, which since its June passage has been mired in budgetary disputes."

What is the connotative meaning of the word mired as it is used in this sentence?

caught

entangled

halted

dirtied

What effect does mr. bullers point of view in paragraph 6

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

The essay sea stars by barbara hurd. what point is the author making by comparing a sea star missing an arm to a human losing a limb?