In the story “if i forget thee, oh earth…” why did marvin’s father take him to see the view of earth from the colony?
a. the colony had just discovered earth as a new planet in their galaxy, and he wanted to share the exciting news.
b. he wanted marvin to understand what they were working towards, a return to earth when living conditions would allow.
c. he wanted marvin to see what the colony had done to earth, destroyed it so humans wouldn’t destroy them first.
d. d. the colony was about to invade earth, and marvin’s father wanted him to join the mission.
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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Wha is the topic discussed in “lifeboat ethics” ?

The first step in making a mental model for a compare-and-contrast text is a. comparing the two things being described. b. finding important details in the text. c. contrasting the two things being described. d. connecting details to what is already known.