Which sentence would make the best first sentence to a personal narrative?

(a) - i had to give a speech in front of the whole school and was very nervous.

(b) - i was about to face my worst fear and was not looking forward to what was ahead of me.

(c) - sweat dripped from my forehead as i looked desperately at my tattered note cards that suddenly looked like gibberish, despite hours of preparation.

(d) - mrs. wilson later told me, “that was the best speech i have ever heard by a student council candidate.”

The colonists had difficulty coming together to revolt because they

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this antidote