What is dicken's object of social criticism in this excerpt from hard times?
a. the indifference of teachers to their students' needs
b. society's lack of emphasis on education
c. a system of education that treats children like machines
d. the lack of trained teachers and properly equipped classrooms.

it is not a.

What does a comparison show? (5 points) a)how two things separate b)how two things are similar c)how two things conflict d)how two things are different

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

Which of these novels is considered an important precursor to science fiction