The tone of this excerpt can best be described as?

though i employ so much of my time in writing to you, i confess i have often my doubts whether it is to any purpose. i know how unwelcome advice generally is; i know that those who want it most like it and follow it least; and i know, too, that the advice of parents, more particularly, is ascribed to the moroseness, the imperiousness, or the garrulity of old age."

a. scathing and unapologetic
b. reflective and humorous
c. conciliatory and humble
d. annoyed and regretful
e. pitying and melancholy

Bescribe a food from your country that many people enjoy

Who is not a member of rome’s second triumvirate?

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)