Which excerpt from "the beginnings of the maasai” is the best example of a feature found in myths?
my job is important, so i work hard to do it well, even though the cattle can sometimes be troublesome.
you see, soon after i was born, a massive volcano erupted right in the middle of the cattle plains.
when we have rituals or community celebrations, i have to bring the cattle, because their presence is essential.
one by one, enkai sent the cattle walking down branches of the fig tree, all the way down to the roots at the ground

What is most likely nelson mandela's purpose of using third person point of view after introducing himself in his introductory paragraphs

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning

Which two historical elements may influence a story? the author’s biographical details the place where the story was published major events such as a war or natural disaster events that took place during the publication of the story