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20 points plus brainlest answer if right.joe nesbo, a travelling salesman, was staying at a hotel for business. he was having a dinner meeting that night, so he decided to take a nap in the middle of the afternoon. he was awakened by a knock at the door, and then a man walked in. “oh my, i’m terribly sorry, this isn’t my room. , pardon the intrusion.” the man calmly backed out and left. nesbo got up and locked the door – something he forgot to do before his nap – and lay back down on the bed. but then he shot up in bed and called the lobby to tell them there was a burglar on the prowl. what made nesbo think that?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.

How many lynching took place in the south between 1877 and 1950