Read the passage: The two cowboys scooped beans Into their tin plates and sat down on the end of the buckboard. "What's your name?" said the older of the two. "They call me Captain Billy. Who might you be?" "I'm Red. This your first cattle drive?" "Yep." The younger man began to cough. "You get a lot of dust back there riding drag. But don't worry they won't put you there every day." "I can take it." "Didn't say you couldn't. Say, were you the one I saw trying to wrestle that doggie down, and got dragged Into that patch of cactus? "Yeah, that was me. I got most all the needles pulled out. Think I dislocated something." "Thought you was limping pretty bad." "It was my shoulder that got dislocated. I'm limping because some horse kicked me." Captain Billy then went into another coughing fit. "Where you from, Billy?" "Philadelphia. "That's a long way back East." "Yeah. I came out here for my health." Based on this conversation, which can the reader expect from the plot? O 1. the day to day progress of a western cattle drive 02. a serious conflict between Captain Billy and Red 03. more mlsadventures of the newcomer to the cattle drive 04. an historical account of life on the open range​

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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