Ruth is writing an essay about the reasons for changing a folk tale from a dark, grotesque story to a story that is appropriate for children. which statements best describe the structure ruth should use? select two options. ruth should use the cause-and-effect structure to show that the darkness of earlier stories caused authors to change them to be appropriate for children. ruth should use the problem-solution structure to show why the dark stories are problematic and how changing them solves the problem. ruth should use the problem-solution structure to show that the result of the darkness of earlier stories was the trend toward rewriting them for children. ruth should give examples of the problems that dark stories can cause for younger audiences and the changes that can solve the problem. ruth should describe the effects of dark stories on children and the changes that lessen those effects.

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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 .

In emerson’s “society and solitude,” emerson makes three allusions. what are they? question 13 options: francis bacon, irish dayworkers, coeur-de-lions egyptians, thoreau, and parliament cotton mather, odysseus, and farmer’s almanac