"I have my fancies: it runs in the family. <span>Father and mother married, and mother came."</span>
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Taking notes - if they take notes, it means that they are carefully writing the important things that Amy says.
Making eye contact with the speaker - making eye contact means that they are giving the attention to Amy.
Asking follow-up questions - the listeners asking questions means that they need clarification from Amy, making the listeners more interested about the topic .
Had to look for the missing details and here is my answer.
"For the Union Dead" is actually a book that was written by Robert Lowell. This book composes of a collection of poems. And based on the excerpt given taken from this book, what the author wants the reader to recognize as based on the start and end is that the Colonel Shaw's monument would be one day be destroyed and forgotten. Hope this helps.
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In the Michio Kaku's book, Visions, he states that we are continuing to rush ahead. To prove that, he says “In the past decade more scientific knowledge has been created than in all of human history.” Since we are so advance, we don't need to be observers "of the dance of Nature". We have moved “from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature.” We are no longer discovering, now we are creating. Conserning future predictions Kaku says to listen to "those who create it".