Start an Argument Using the ideas you previously wrote in your Argument Organizer on the topic you chose, you will write the introduction paragraph of your argument. View the grading rubric as you complete your work. This is your guide to a super submission. You have previously chosen a side to an issue, and you have organized your ideas in the Argument Organizer. Now you will use your ideas from the organizer (and tips from this lesson) to write the introduction to your argument. In your introduction, remember to: Include a hook that captures the interest of your reader and gives a reason the issue is important State your specific claim that expresses your opinion on the issue and is clearly focused and specific. Write 100 words or more Write in formal style using the third person point of view. Use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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Recommend four ways in which a person should approach conflict resolution in order to sustain healthy relationships

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