What is being personified in the first three stanzas of the poem? "an old patched hat, which was almond with trim-red, watched as it sat on an old, thin head. and what it saw, and what it knew, was more than more of you might even ever construe 5 from just a patched, old hat. it’d seen a child die—depression--a war, bowed at the bedside of the lady once adored, watched while its owner did weep when his store burned down to the ground, nothing left but the floor10 and that brand-new hat on his head. it saw with lucid eyes inhuman, divine the tired man grew older, while his boy grew wise. some said, ‘so tragic,’ the son said, ‘fate’ when the lightning left a char on the elder’s pate 15 and they both did loving before too late. that special bequest." a) a burned store eliminate b) a tired old man c) an old patched hat d) a child dying in war

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

The tone of this speech could best be described as expressing a feeling of read the excerpt from president ronald reagan's speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election, i believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will testore our private and independent social fear hope anger pride

What is most likely nelson mandela's purpose of using third person point of view after introducing himself in his introductory paragraphs