Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of twenty years at hull house and answer the question.

once again i heard his testimony in favor of “mental integrity above everything else.”

at the time we were driving through a piece of timber in which the wood chopper had been at work during the winter, and so earnestly were we talking that he suddenly drew up the horses to find that he did not know where he was. we were both entertained by the incident, i that my father had been “lost in his own timber” so that various cords of wood must have escaped his practiced eye, and he on his side that he should have become so absorbed in this maze of youthful speculation.

“what are you? what do you say when people ask you? ”

his eyes twinkled a little as he soberly replied:
“i am a quaker.”

“but that isn’t enough to say,” i urged.

“very well,” he added, “ to people who insist upon details, as some one is doing now, i add that i am a hicksite quaker”; and not another word on the weighty subject could i induce him to utter.

the underlined text is important to the author’s future legacy because it reinforces the idea that conversation

is her means of connecting with her father’s in a significant way
is a way to get lost and follow the less traveled road from time to time
is the beginning of open discussion and deeper understanding of others
is a delightful way to pass the time and stay entertained during some free time

If the author of the gift of the magi had made the reader aware of the gifts that jim had purchased in the beginning of the story this would be an example of

To meet the needs of commuters in the industrial age, city planners implemented the use of phonographs. provided more horses and carriages. borrowed technology from railroads. constructed new telephone lines.

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .