I need help please. The picture is passage. Q: As used in the passage, the phrase "secured the favor" means

A. Became his favorite
B. Won approval
C. Popular
D. Lost respect

Describe how chinese and america culture, culture values an historical context contribute to the conflicts between the mother and the narrator in "two kinds"

Analyze how jackson uses elements of a story to develop her message. for example, how does she create both certainty about charles' character and uncertainty in her audience about charles' identity? should laurie's parents have realized the truth earlier? how does jackson foreshadow the ending for her audience, while allowing for a surprise for laurie's parents? what is jackson's message about children and parents?

Why does yu tsun kill dr. albert at the end of borges’s “the garden of forking paths”?