You have read “Golden Glass” and “There Is a Tree That Stands,” about two boys who are growing up. Using details from the passage and the poem, write an essay that compares and contrasts how Ted in “Golden Glass” and the speaker in “There Is a Tree That Stands” experience growing up. In your essay, be sure to explain the relationships Ted and the speaker have with their mothers and Ted’s and the speaker’s feelings about growing up. Write a well-organized, text-dependent response. Be sure to save time to edit and review your work for complete sentences, spelling, punctuation, and appropriate language. Please i need help

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

One eoc function is to provide coordinated support to incident command. true or false

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