Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods." in the course of my explorations twenty-five years ago, i found five sawmills located on or near the lower margin of the sequoia belt, all of which were cutting more or less big tree lumber, which looks like the redwood of the coast, and was sold as redwood. one of the smallest of these mills in the season of 1874 sawed two million feet of sequoia lumber. since that time other mills have been built among the sequoias, notably the large ones on kings river and the head of the fresno. what does the appeal in this excerpt mainly achieve?

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

The point of view that london uses in white fang the reader understand the perspectives