1.
PART A: What is the central idea of the text?

A
Emotional awareness, which can be learned and practiced, can help people navigate multiple areas of life.
B
Babies learn to manage emotions, and as they grow, they use the same skills in new situations.
C
Emotional awareness involves learning to accept positive emotions and reject negative ones.
D
Because learning to manage emotions is so difficult, it is best left to adults.

A.

Emotional awareness, which can be learned and practiced, can help people navigate multiple areas of life.

cassius, casca, and their allies plant false documents to manipulate brutus to join their cause to remove caesar. after doing so, they visit brutus at night in his home to persuade him of their views. there they plan caesar's death. brutus is troubled but refuses to confide in his devoted wife, portia. on 15 march, caesar's wife, calpurnia, urges him not to go to the senate. she has had visionary dreams and fears the portents of the overnight storms.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."