5) Close Reading and Analysis: The author of Document C writes: "...Having nothing to hope for beyond the present you did not think of the future, but like the ox and horse, thought only of the food and work for the day." What assumptions does the author make here? Do you think that this is true? Why or why not?

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.