Which statement best explains the role context plays in
better understanding this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."
America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of
ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion,
the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone
knows that most men consider themselves better than
someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States
was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin
wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that
seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of
its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and
brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.
Quindlen uses the context of American diversity to help
readers rethink the concept of American identity and
understand that she supports the idea of unity among
Americans of all cultures.
Understanding that Quindien is the descendant of
immigrants helps the reader realize that she supports the
idea that some cultures are naturally better than others.
Quindlen uses the context of living in the United States
during the 9/11 attacks to help the reader realize that she
feels that unity among all Americans is impossible to
achieve.
Understanding that Quindlen is an immigrant from
another country helps readers realize that she
understands societies like the United States more than
most people.

What is a casting director, and what do you think might be some of the possible benefits of a director using a casting director? what do you think might be some of the possible drawbacks of a director using a casting director? your response should be at least five sentences. use complete sentences and offer evidence to back up your opinion.

Read the two excerpts from act 4, scene 3, and act 5, scene 5, of julius caesar. cassius. ha! portia? brutus. she is dead. cassius. how scaped i killing when i crossed you so? o insupportable and touching loss! upon what sickness? brutus. impatient of my absence, and grief that young octavius with mark antony have made themselves so strong—for with her death that tidings came. with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. good volumnius, thou know’st that we two went to school together. even for that, our love of old, i prithee, hold thou my sword hilts, whilst i run on it. . so fare you well at once, for brutus’ tongue hath almost ended his life’s history. night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, that have but laboured to attain this hour. . i prithee, strato, stay thou by thy lord. thou art a fellow of a good respect. thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it. hold then my sword, and turn away thy face while i do run upon it. wilt thou, strato? which statement best compares brutus’s remarks at the death of his wife, portia, to his words before his own death? brutus shows more sadness for portia’s death than he does for his own. brutus is more philosophical about his own death than he is about portia’s. brutus uses more imagery when speaking about portia’s death than about his own. brutus reacts more matter-of-factly about his own death than he does about portia’s.

Why does patton seem undaunted about eating his rodent soup