Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I by Thomas Paine. “I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are held by the Tories: a noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, ‘Well! give me peace in my day.’ Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, ‘If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;’ and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”

Which is a central idea of this excerpt?
Paine feels that everyone should be able to speak freely, which is why he supports independence.
Paine believes that colonists should fight for independence so their children can live in peace.
Paine believes that some people are selfish and place their needs above others.
Paine felt anger for the first time when he saw an interaction between a Tory and a child.

Paine believes that colonists should fight for independence so their children can live in peace.

Explanation:

According to Paine, he said that if there must be trouble, it must be in his day s that his children will live in peace and that this is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Therefore, based on this, the central idea of this excerpt is that Paine believes that colonists should fight for independence so their children can live in peace.

while his customary satire is present in mark twain's short story "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county," there is a cloaking of this satire as twain's narrator is not directly involved. another literary device that you could build a thesis around is the use by twain of hyperbole.

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at first, alex is blissfully happy. sure, cole seems a little jealous of her relationship with her close friend zack, but what guy would want his girlfriend spending all her time with another boy? as the months pass, though, alex can no longer ignore cole's small put-downs, pinches, or increasingly violent threats.  

as alex struggles to come to terms with the sweet boyfriend she fell in love with and the boyfriend whose "love" she no longer recognizes, she is forced to choose -- between her "true love" and herself.

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