1. Coleridge, like the other Romantic poets, prefers the country to the city, the natural to the artificial, and solitude to society Write three sentences in which you identify a specific trait of the Hermit (with textual support) to show that he is an admirable character, ono a Romantic poet would admire.
2. In the last ten stanzas of the poem, the mariner explains how he is free, and what he must do in order to stay that way, before he leaves the scene
In a paragraph explain how the old man is like a writer (perhaps like Coleridge himself, and how he is not like a writer, citing from these lines (582-625)
To help you think of points of comparison, consider the word "lonely in line 599 (and the context for that word).
3. From what perspective is "Bartleby the Scrivener" told? How would this story be different if it were told from the perspective of Bartleby, rather than the narrator? What sort of different information do you
think the readers would receive?
Be sure to include at least two examples of this. What do you think they would no longer know?
4. Emerson claims that morality among societies and individuals is the most integral component of a civilized society
In a well-composed essay, evaluate this statement, stating whether or not you agree
Be sure to include at least two examples from the text in your evaluation, and state why you do or do not agree

It's to know your purpose before you read something because a purpose can:

1. a poem that tells a story irony 2. taking on human characteristics narrative 3. a direct comparison between two things personification 4. words that are opposite the thoughts in a speaker's mind simile 5. implied comparison introduced with "as" and "like idiom 6. one's own manner of speaking metaphor

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.