What is the best way to describe a theme of this poem? A.
By the end of the year, it is too late to make any changes to a person's life.
B.
The failures of the past should inspire people to accomplish more in the future.
C.
The main purpose of having New Year's resolutions is to make people feel bad.
D.
People would accomplish their New Year's resolutions if they wrote them down.

How can a musical work be an argument

In at least two hundred words, discuss why "désirée's baby" is or is not relevant today.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.