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From the passage “He is a man who can never be known in full because almost all that he did, said and thought is lost in the irrecoverable past.” (L.14-16) it can be correctly inferred that the author is of the opinion that the study of history is a futile attempt to reconstruct events from the past.
The author provides the opening paragraph with a cinematic quality for he attempts to create dynamic scenes.
The text is built on images associated with darkness, which suggests that Caravaggio’s life, as well as the quality of his art, was shadowy and shady.
In the second paragraph, the author suggests that information collected under duress is not reliable.
Although the slaves’ songs touched the narrator’s heart, the uncultured quality of their music sometimes annoyed him, as shown in the fragment “The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit” (L.19-20).
The relationship the word “within” (L.13) bears with “without” (L.14) is one of opposition.
In “than the reading of whole volumes” (L.9-10), the omission of the definite article would not interfere with the grammar correction of the sentence.
The fragment “quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds” (L.28) means that the narrator is fast when it comes to forging emotional and spiritual bonds with his own real family through music.
To outsiders, the music sung by the slaves would probably sound like babbling.
The narrator believes that his fellow slaves managed to translate their dire predicament into moving tunes.
The author of the text ascribes his nascent political awareness regarding slavery to the tunes he heard the slaves sing.
The music produced by the slaves had the power to incite them to rebel against their appalling condition.
Natalie Batalha is used to talking about her research to specialists and non-specialists alike.
Natalie Batalha demonstrated how planets can survive the death of the star they orbit.
She was taken aback by the European TV correspondent’s ignorance about the natural process of a star’s living cycle.
She is the chief researcher of the space project that involves the Kepler telescope.