Which of the following quotes is the best excerpt to support a theme of having ambition and productivity versus idleness and pleasure? "’what in the world are those girls about now? ’ thought laurie, opening his sleepy eyes to take a good look, for there was something rather peculiar in the appearance of his neighbors.” “he was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.” "’well, that's cool,’ said laurie to himself, ‘to have a picnic and never ask me! ’” "’you'll get there, beth, sooner or later, no fear of that,’ said jo. ‘i'm the one that will have to fight and work, and climb and wait, and maybe never get in [the celestial city] after all.’"

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human