Which of these statements would be most important to include in an objective summary of the article? (a)smartphone companies are searching for new ways to innovate and new services to provide to improve sales. (b) smartphones with screens that unfold like a wallet to increase display size are a sure way to build consumer excitement. (c) the top models of phones made by apple and samsung are available for ridiculous prices of more than $1,000. (d) apple's shares dropped 10 percent in stock market value after the company announced that it expects to sell fewer phones.

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

Certain predictable elements of beowulf, such as the superhuman hero and the quest to defeat evil, are common to the form. a. story b. plot c. epic d. novel