Which detail from the passage demonstrates a subjective perspective?
Through the midst of the city [Baghdad) flows a very
large river, by which travellers may go to the Indian Sea,
By this route merchants come and go with their
merchandise. You should know that from Baghdad to the
sea is a journey of fully eighteen days. Merchants
travelling to India follow this river to a city called Kais,
where they enter the Indian Sea. On the river between
Baghdad and Kais there is a large city named Basra; and
in groves all around Basra grow the best dates the
world,
-"The Middle East,"
Marco Polo

Now close reading is an essential and foundational skill needed to succeed in any language arts course. acquiring this skill will you form a strategy when writing about literature. you will be required to perform and develop this skill as you progress through this course and other courses in your school career. identify and discuss your areas of strength in language arts. what do you do well? what do you like doing in a course like this? why do those tasks work well for you? you can also identify a challenge you have that you’d like to work on throughout this course. use this discussion as an opportunity to give advice to your classmates based on your stronger skills and to ask for with skills you are still developing.

Our coach’s idea of food for the entire wrestling team was tiny sandwiches and fruit.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .