Which line from "Damon and Pythias" helps the reader see Damon in the same way that Pythias does? A. "It happened that Pythias had, quite unjustly, been accused by Dionysius of trying to overthrow him..." B. "Try as he might, Pythias could not prove his innocence to the king's satisfaction..." C. "The noble youth asked only for a few days' freedom so that he could settle is business affairs and see to it that his relatives would be cared for..." D. "And, as the Fates would have it, by a strange turn of events, Pythias was detained far longer in his task than he had imagined."

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

What is the message? how does langston hughes convey the message in this poem?

You're playing the slots and "win" twenty-five bucks! you're stoked. during the past ten weeks, you've won another fifty bucks. but you've dropped two bucks in the slot machines every day for ten weeks