PLEASE HURRY I NEED THIS TO PASS! Read this excerpt from Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Which phrase provides a context clue that helps determine the meaning of the word ascertain?
She thought it never was before; indeed, she thought it much (A. so light). She stopped to (B. look about) her, and ascertain if her pursuers were yet in sight. No one appeared, and (C. for the first time), the question came up for settlement, 'Where, and (D. to whom), shall I go?'

You have been given an assignment to speak on the federal prison system in the u. s. which of the following sources is likely to be the least credible? a. an interview with an inmate of a federal prison b. the us department of justice “federal bureau of prisons” website: c. the website [] which discusses the danger of releasing an alarming number of convicts back into society d. an article from foxnews. com about the florida state penitentiary

Which is not a controlling idea in the essay? a) average joggers b) importance of tradition eliminate c) olympic-level competitors d) fräbel-designed crystal peach

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)