Read the excerpt from the odyssey.

he saw the townlands
and learned the minds of many distant men,
and weathered many bitter nights and days
in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only
to save his life, to bring his shipmates home.

which is the most effective paraphrase of this excerpt?

odysseus traveled simply so that he could find his shipmates and bring them home safely.
odysseus learned much and encountered many obstacles on his long journey to bring himself and his men home safely.
odysseus was away from home for a long time and overcame many obstacles during his time at sea.
odysseus and his shipmates spent many long and difficult days at sea during their travels home.

Imagine if going to work every day meant your life thats the reality that meat packers in this county face with some of the highest rates of injury and death of any profession i myself worked at such a facility for two years and can resport on the unsafe conditions firsthand

Why is reasoning relivant to reading and evaluate text?

Which excerpts from the war of the worldseffectively use setting to provide a contrast to the horror of the plot? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldshe remained standing at the edge of the pit that the thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival. the early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine trees towards weybridge, was already warm.they shouted consolation and promises, and went off back to the town again to get . one can imagine them, covered with sand, excited and disordered, running up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking down their shutters and people were opening their bedroom windows.it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees. the burning heather had been extinguished, but the level ground towards ottershaw was blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke.an enormous hole had been made by the impact of the projectile, and the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction over the heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. the heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.