Select the correct answer.
which claim is supported by the evidence that a competition can have only one winner?
the importance of competition
a students face disappointment if they lose while competing.
b. competitions boost confidence in all participating students.
c. schools should encourage students to try new things.
• d. hardworking people do not achieve success easily
a competition is a great way to engage students to be more
interested in school activities because it adds a "fun" element to the
learning process. competitions are also known to motivate some
students. but are competitions always healthy? is being part of
competitions the only way to prove capability? students' families should
not force students to participate in competitions
the idea of winning a competition may be so demanding that a
student may concentrate all of his or her efforts on preparing for the
competition over other things. this may create an imbalance in the
student's life. students might also neglect their studies because they
are intent at being successful in only one thing. this fear of losing may
also make students overwork, which can have a negative effect.
moreover, it is obvious that any competition will have only one
winner, and the others have to brace themselves for disappointment.
sometimes, even though a person may perform well, he or she may
lose a competition to someone who performs slightly better. this
disappointment can affect the confidence of the competitor, and
therefore, his or her performance.
thus, competitions can have a negative impact on students.

Chicago by carl sandburg hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.