Read the following passage and then respond to the directions below.

Leo Panchello owns a small Italian restaurant along 19th Avenue. He's been making his own pasta for 30 years now, and his pizza is the legend of the neighborhood. Locals pack the place every evening, supping at his family style tables or enjoying cool drinks and the sunset on his patio.

Now picture Leo Panchello standing at his restaurant entrance surveying a parking lot as empty as the tables inside. All because of a torn up street and a ditch that makes it a hassle to get to Panchello's, even for his pizza.

Save our local businesses. Vote "No" on light rail.

Explain how the argument illustrates the slippery slope fallacy and why that fallacy makes the argument weak.

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