Jonathan had never worked so hard in his life. jonathan was used to working hard in school--staying after for tutoring, studying for an hour every night, and doing an hour's worth of homework each day. but jonathan had never done any heavy labor. now here he was with his father, trying to dig a large hole in the backyard for a compost pile. sweat poured off his father's brow as he grunted with each shovel full of dark dirt. jonathan had always thought that writing essays was hard work. which sentence would work best as a concluding sentence to this paragraph? a) jonathan decided that he hated his father for making him work so hard. b) now, jonathan realized that hard work comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. c) work, jonathan learned very quickly, was something that was good for the soul. d) "i wish it would rain," thought jonathan lazily, "i'd rather be playing video games."

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Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .