Read the excerpt from the haida creation myth. in the spirit world, the trickster god raven grew bored. he decided to leave and fly over the earth, but he found it was in total darkness. the selfish sky chief had been hoarding daylight from the world. raven wanted to be able to see the earth as he flew over it. read the excerpt from the maori creation myth. these sons loved their parents, but rangi and papa's embrace was so tight that they had no space to move or to lead their lives. they lay in the darkness, constricted and unhappy. based on these excerpts, what is one similarity between the myths? both describe why it is difficult to live without excitement and fun. both explain why it is difficult to live without the ability to fly. both describe why it is difficult to live without the support of siblings. both explain why it is difficult to live in a world without light.

Write a researched argument essay in which you take a position that reality television does or does not offer value to society. provide a claim and three reasons to support your claim. you must include evidence from multiple sources to support your claim as well.

What experience makes wind-wolf want to stop attending school?

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