Which are examples of themes? check all that apply. the story is concerned with beauty. there is beauty in simplicity. there was a lot of talk about hope. the main character spread hope. hope exists even in dark times.

In poetry, themes are understood as the main idea of the literary work. Therefore, examples of themes would be the following ones: there is beauty in simplicity and hope exists even in dark times. These would be your answers because they are topics, you can develop an idea from them. They lead you to talk about beauty and hope.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.