In colin linden's "lucky charm," after going to the emporium with his father every week for eight years, the speaker cannot go because he has to play in a football game. how does his father react? he grounds his son and tells them that if he can't go to the emporium with him, then he can't go to the football game, either. he smacks his son across the face and then instantly regrets it. he goes by himself, and they never go together again. he goes to his son's football game instead.

What is the impact of the words equally, completeness, and united

What are some of the images and diction used by the narrator that evoke the "dream of america"?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia