Jack. may i ask you then what you would advise me to do? i need hardly say i would do anything in the world to ensure gwendolen’s happiness. lady bracknell. i would strongly advise you, mr. worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible, and to make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the season is quite over. jack. well, i don’t see how i could possibly manage to do that. i can produce the hand-bag at any moment. it is in my dressing-room at home. i really think that should satisfy you, lady bracknell. –the importance of being earnest, oscar wilde in three to four sentences, explain how this passage uses humor to critique victorian views about the importance of family.

Read the excerpt. … in lower burma, i was hated by large numbers of people. … i was subdivisional police officer of the town, and … anti-european feeling was very bitter. … as a police officer i was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. … i had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing. … i was all for the burmese and all against their oppressors, the british. what is the situational irony in the excerpt from “shooting an elephant” by george orwell? the narrator is a british police officer and part of the system he dislikes. the narrator is himself a well-liked member of the burmese government. the narrator has recently become a burmese citizen. the narrator has decided to leave the british empire.

Which of the following is an aspect of setting in a literary work? 1. time ii. place iii. social/historical context i only i and 11 ll and iii i, ii, and iii

We must understand the connections between the climate crisis and the afflictions of poverty, hunger, hiv-aids, and other pandemics. as these problems are linked, so too must be their solutions. we must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community. which statement best describes gore's use of evidence to support his argument? a. gore makes connections between events to support his argument that solutions to the climate crisis will also solve other problems. b. gore provides dramatic details to support his argument that solutions to problems of this magnitude are often rare. c. gore compares crises in the world to support his argument that the problem of climate change must take a backseat to other problems. d. gore describes positive outcomes to support his argument that people should remain optimistic about finding solutions to climate change.