For a moment, she panicked and glanced at the audience in front of her. Nadia spotted her mother in the first row. Seeing her mo
ther made her think of home and Lucky. This time, when she looked down at the piano keys, she imagined she was at home with Lucky beside her. In that moment, her nerves settled as she forgot about the audience eagerly awaiting her performance. Now that it was just her and Lucky, she struck the first note, and the other notes just fell in line with ease. When Nadia hit the last note, she turned to the audience and smiled. Just as she did, the audience erupted in applause. In paragraph 7, which feeling do the words settled and ease illustrate about Nadia? A)her joy about competing in the show B)her comfort after thinking of Lucky C)her pride about playing a difficult song D) her anxiousness to finish her performance
The story illustrates a pianist girl's performance and her feelings developing with that. She feels anxious in front the audience and then she forgets all the confusion and anxiousness. The excerpt explains this transformation. Nadia starts thinking about their home, playing piano with Lucky beside her and how she was playing at home with ease and with comfort. She felt herself to feel at home. The correct answer is B.
In The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina (which are all rivers in Russia), the purpose of mythology that the story fulfills is explanation of natural phenomena. The creation of these rivers is what makes the plot of the story.
it says "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." which granted rights to the newly freed slaves