The excerpt below is from William Jennings Bryan's speech at the Democratic Convention in 1896 “Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the
commercial Interests, the laboring interests and the tolers everywhere, we will answer their
demands for a gold standard by saying to them: ‘You shall not press down upon the brow of
labor this crown of thoms: you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of goid.’ "

Why did Bryan's rural supporters believe that the gold standard was oppressive?

A. They knew that railroad owners and grain elevator operators usually insisted on being paid with gold
coin.

B. They believed that a policy of bimetallism would lead crop prices to rise, making farm debts less
burdensome

C. They feared that speculators like Jay Gould and James Fisk would manipulate prices by cornering
the gold market

D. They felt that reliance on the gold standard in international trade had made it difficult for farmers to
export crops overseas.

alaska is the answer to this

an earnest tone.

because portia wants to know why brutus has been acting strange lately.

paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.

i'm not certain but i'm pretty sure it was spanish and portuguese america.