The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there is no further reference to a specific question, we assume that you are asking for the main claim of the essay.
If that is the case, then the answer will be this one.
We are talking about the story of "Two Ways of Seeing a River," written by American author Mark Twain.
So the claim of the essay is to ponder what we have and leaves in our lives. What we could call the gains and possessions of life and the losses, all of them with their respective baggage of experiences that make us grow. It is about the different perspectives and changes in life, things that he reflected on when he was young while piloting steamboats in the Mississippi River.
This essay is part of his book "Life on the Mississippi," written in 1883.
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1) hunter-gathering tribes
2) small towns and nomadic groups
3) city-states and small kingdoms
4) empires
5) nation-states
A. a turn away from liberal reforms.
Nixon was a Republican representing conservative thinking. His victory demonstrated a move from the liberal reforms of JFK and L. Johnson.
Nixon was a conservative who wanted to reduce the size of the federal government and the federal programs put into place by the preceding presidents. He also moved troops out of Vietnam and began to ease Cold War tensions.
Answer: If you don't mind me saying it is B
Explanation: it is more oppinion than fact.