Which excerpt from “the gift of the magi” best illustrates the humorous tone of the narrator? oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. forget the hashed metaphor. she was ransacking the stores for jim's present. in the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened with a family! he needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves. suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds.

Read the passage from a vindication of the rights of woman. that the society is formed in the wisest manner, whose constitution is founded on the nature of man, strikes, in the abstract, every thinking being so forcibly, that it looks like presumption to endeavour to bring forward proofs; though proof must be brought, or the strong hold of prescription will never be forced by reason; yet to urge prescription as an argument to justify the depriving men (or women) of their natural rights, is one of the absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense. does wollstonecraft maintain an objective tone in the passage? yes, because she uses objective language such as “society is formed in the wisest manner.” yes, because she uses objective language such as “it looks like presumption to endeavor.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “though proof must be brought, or the strong hold.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense.”

How does the mother defend her child to the old duck

According to warren in the brown opinion, how did conditions change between the time the fourteenth amendment was adopted and the time the supreme court considered brown v. board of education?