Select the correct text in the passage. which lines best reveal lawrence ferlinghetti's troubled view of modern american society? to the oracle at delphi by lawrence ferlinghetti (excerpt) i, americus, the american, wrought from the dark in my mother long ago, from the dark of ancient europa— why are you staring at me now in the dusk of our civilization-- why are you staring at me as if i were america itself the new empire vaster than any in ancient days with its electronic highways carrying its corporate monoculture around the world and english the latin of our days— great oracle, sleeping through the centuries, awaken now at last and tell us how to save us from ourselves and how to survive our own rulers who would make a plutocracy of our democracy in the great divide between the rich and the poor in whom walt whitman heard america singing

Find the center and the radius of the circle with the equation: x^-2x+y^2+4y+1=0

Who is the speaker? read the quotations and answer the questions for each quote. quotation analysis "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of " what is the main idea of the quotation? who do you think is the speaker? what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker? 2. "all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are rich and well born, the other the mass of the people…" what is the main idea of the quotation? they divided the people in between rich and poor who do you think is the speaker? hamilton what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker? federalists believed that the country should be ruled by the by the best people 3. "laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense." what is the main idea of the quotation? who do you think is the speaker? what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker? 4. "a fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired." what is the main idea of the quotation? who do you think is the speaker? what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker?

Which one of these lines use him to permitte which one of these lines uses iambic pentameter?