Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. another familiar disease is malaria, which elizabethans refer to as ague or fever. you might associate this with more tropical countries of the modern world but in marshy areas in sixteenth-century england, such as the lincolnshire and cambridgeshire fens, the norfolk broads, and romney marsh in kent, it kills thousands. no one suspects that it has anything to do with mosquitoes; rather people believe it is the corrupted air arising from the low-lying dank marsh (hence the term mal-aria). as a result, you will have no chance of getting proper treatment for the disease. how does the paragraph expand on the central idea that malaria was a deadly disease in elizabethan england? it proves that malaria is spread by mosquitoes in swampy areas. it gives a detailed description of the area known as romney marsh. it explains elizabethan misconceptions about the spread of malaria. it compares common malaria symptoms to influenza symptoms.

Based on the excerpt, the paragraph expands the central idea about malaria being a deadly disease in the way that Elizabethans were not aware at all of how malaria was spread among people at that time, so because of their lack of knowledge about the illness, they could not find proper treatment to cure it. Thus, the best option that supports the idea is the third sentence "It explains Elizabethan misconceptions about the spread of malaria." Additional support for the idea is that there is no comparison between one disease and another; it is briefly mentioned Romney Marsh with no description; and malaria is not only associated with swampy areas but with tropical areas, too.

i decided to stay late in the laboratory to continue my experiment with the lightbulb. at midnight, thomas edison opened the door and saw all the stuff he was working on. the lightbulb, film and the transmitter. as he walks in an idea hits him on how the lightbulb would work. he would have to change a few wires around to get it to light up. when he did change the wires around it worked so he decided to write a telegraph to his friend to tell him about his success.   as he was packing up he grabbed the telegraph and walked to his home. he told his wife about the success and the next morning mailed the telegraph.

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.