in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
D. An astronaut can't resist the temptation to push a mysterious red
button on her control panel.
Answer:
Estige, the river of boiling blood, is the punishment in Dante's Inferno that resembles or contrasts the sin in which the person created while on Earth.
Explanation:
At the entrance to the fifth circle of hell is a waterfall of bubbling, boiling water and blood whose water was darker than purple. The water descends some beaches and forms a lake called Styx, where the accused are accosted with rage, who are together beating themselves and torturing themselves in an endless rage. At the bottom of the Styx are the spiteful ones who never showed their anger; they can not rise to the surface and stay in the mud at the bottom of the river, releasing the bubbles that are seen on the surface.
<span>Trickery is a valuable weapon in battle.</span>
The correct answer is C. The words "struck harsh upon my ears" suggest an irritated tone. The excerpt shows the narrator sitting in his study when an old acquaintance, Rahmun, shows up. His reaction, however, is not positive. After inquiring, he learns that Rahmun has just been released from jail. This makes the narrator recoil in disgust, since he had never before talked with an ex-convict, and he thinks to himself that it would have been better had he not shown up.
