As explained in “With a Little Help From My Friends,” why did the author’s father always try to tell his American neighbors about petroleum? A. He thought Americans envied Iran's petroleum resources since America had so little.
B. He worked for an international petroleum company and liked talking about his work.
C. He knew they were fascinated by the story of how Iran's petroleum industry developed.
D. He wanted them to know that Iran was a modern country with a successful petroleum industry.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

b. cronkite, a trusted television personality, declared that the war was unwinnable and told the american people that the government had better find a way out

even though it went against everything the news anchors typically stood for, cronkite voiced an opinion and took a stance, telling the us that there was no way they were going to win, the war was going to end in a stalemate. 

at hatfield elementary school, there are 504 students in 7 classes. each class has the same number of students. what is a good estimate of the number of students in each class?