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What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

Need answer asap plz! the descriptions of the west wind in the first two sections of “ode to the west wind” are dominated by images of a. violence, death, decay, and burial. c. peace, birth, growth, and blossoming. b. sleep, dreams, fantasy, and reverie. d. translucence, light, color, and radiance.

What is the main conflict in this excerpt from “rumplestiltskin” by the brothers grimm?