What is the occasion? This includes the time and date of the piece, the context in which it was written, or the situation in which this article was written. Consider the two elements of occasion: the context (larger issues/events/etc.) and exigency ("why now?"). What are the factors in the environment of attitudes, ideas, and emotions that are involved in the broad issue at hand as well as any immediate situations or events that prompted the author to create this piece?

The overwhelming majority of the peoples and nations of the world today want to live in peace

Read the passage. and thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth. and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by then was there a hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. in the passage from morte d’arthur by sir thomas malory, what are the bolded words an example of?

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced