WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST AND 67 POINTS IF YOU GET IT RIGHT!! As you read the following passage, look for clues that suggest the paragraph is an example of academic discourse.

Although analyzed in depth, the cause of Van Gogh’s death is still a mystery. Some say it was his fondness of absinthe, a mind-altering drink, while others insist it was his congenital mental insanity. Still others suggest it was caused by ingesting lead paint from the brushes he held in his mouth. In this paper, I will address each of these theories.

What kind of special knowledge does a study of world literature provide?
A. It suggests that authors around world are all just telling the same story with different characters.
B. It represents what each culture has decided it wants the world to know about its people.
C. It offers more factual detail than is available in most historical documents and records.
D. It reveals a more complete (and complex) picture of how it is to live within different cultures.

Since carmen was so hungry she stopped at the deli and brought a sandwich identify the dependent clause and circle the independent clause

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.