Which of the following regarding power is true in the novel?
O Jack's knife symbolizes his power and eventually the boys' decline into savagery.
All are true.
The conch symbolizes a more civilized, orderly power.
When the power shifts over to Jack, the conch slowly loses its importance.

Which statement about lethal genes is most accurate? question 5 options: they can be maintained in a gene pool by heterozygous carriers when the allele is recessive and the individuals reproduce. they cannot be maintained in a gene pool because they are always dominant. they cannot be maintained in a gene pool because the individuals do not survive. they can be maintained in a gene pool if the allele is expressed before reproductive age.

Read this passage: i think of you daily, my darling, especially when it’s dark and the other men in the foxhole become silent. i like to pretend that the gunfire is a fireworks display and that you are here with me to enjoy it. who is the intended audience for this passage? a. the writers girlfriend at home b. the writers fellow soldiers c. the writers mother and father d. the writers commanding officer

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .