The following sentence illustrates which definition of the word retribution?
the court decided that the sentence was fair retribution for the crime committed
retsrisbustion (re-tra-by-shan) n. 1: something justly deserved, repayment. 2: something given or demanded in reparation
especially punishment. (middle english retribucioun, from old french retribution, from latin retribuere, to pay back]

When developing a written argument, what best explains why an author would use a graph as a source? a graph gives numeric evidence visually. a graph is easy to read and understand. a graph is colorful and will engage the reader. a graph can be used to refute an argument.

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 theme of the first seven years is consistent with characteristics of the time in which it was written. what is consistent about the era and the story’s plot?