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porpoises swim around the coast, catching small fish. but they don't touch the sharp-nosed puffer fish because it is poisonous.

a) porpoises are small catchy fish who avoid sharp-nosed puffer fish in case they are poisonous.
b) porpoises swim around the seashore catching little fish. however, they avoid the poisonous sharp-nosed puffer fish.
c) sharp-nosed puffer fish avoid porpoises near the coast because they are dangerous.
d) porpoises and small fish swim around the coast. they do not go near the sharp-nosed puffer fish because it is poisonous.
eliminate

For this assignment, you will create a multimedia presentation in response to the following prompt: research suggests that laughter improves people’s emotional and physical well-being. create a multimedia presentation to inform the audience about the positive effects of laughter on emotional and physical health.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a.sailing b.suitors c.hunting d.dreams