The exhibit models, their accompanying text, and the overall layout of the Rose Center organized the principal
contents of the solar system by objects of like properties,
rather than as enumerations of planets and their moons.
This decision landed Pluto among the growing number of
icy objects found beyond Neptune, and left it unmentioned
and out of view among our models for the rocky, terrestrial
objects (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) and the gas
giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). By this
organization, we practically abandoned the concept of
planet altogether
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Pluto Files
What is the main idea of this paragraph?

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 .

Similarities between speaker’s delivery and active listening?

Explain how creon’s tragic downfall reveals the ancient greek belief that nothing happens by chance.