Read this excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels: Which two mighty powers have … been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-
and-thirty moons past. It began upon the following occasion. It is allowed on all
hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the
larger end; but his present majesty’s grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat
an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his
fingers. Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his
subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people
so highly resented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions
raised on that account.

Which of the following best describes the point of Swift’s satire in this passage?

Group of answer choices

It supports the protection of religion at all costs.

It suggests that tradition should be respected, not undermined.

It indicates that wars originating from minor religious matters are ridiculous.

It implies that seemingly trivial matters can be fundamental to the health of a society.

What are the benefits of secondary source

Read this description of a detail from the movie i am legend. a scientist is the last man alive in a post-apocalyptic new york, where zombies have taken over and destroyed most of the population. about ten minutes into the film, the man thinks back to how the zombie creatures came to be, and how at one point he had a wife and child. which type of suspense technique did the screenwriter use? dramatic irony flashback foreshadowing special effects

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.