"Literary Focus: The Enlightenment," the author explains that to Enlightenment philosophers, the study of truth involves many different fields of knowledge—the natural world, the human body, human behavior, the role of governments, and
the formation of just societies." In an essay of at least 300 words, argue which of these fields of knowledge is most
relevant to the study of truth. Which field of knowledge do you think can bring humanity closer to an understanding of
truth? Perhaps you believe it is scientists, those who study "the human body," who can bring us closest to understanding
truth, or perhaps you believe it is those who work in "governments." Just be sure to use evidence from the text to
support your arguments.

In shakespeare’s hamlet what word can be substituted for allusion in the phrase the illusion is that not only does larry us die as expected but hamlet is doomed to die by the poison on his own sword as

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Which two sentences in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich reflect the author's belief that russia's rising middle class was unable to express genuine emotion?