Read the excerpt from Frida Kahlo by Hedda Garza. When Frida Kahlo entered the Ministry of Education building clutching three of her paintings, she gazed awestruck at an amazing sight. Up to a height of three stories, the walls were covered with dozens of huge murals vividly dramatizing the history of Mexico's persecuted Indians. Diego Rivera, perched high up on the scaffolding, was putting the finishing touches on five years of labor. He did not notice the small figure on the ground floor. What do the underlined words indicate about the author's feelings toward Diego Rivera's artwork?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

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.

In the song mallam sile sings in lines 113 through 130 the knife probably represents