Read the paragraph from a writer's argument essay in support library funding. “The Story Hour has been one of our most popular programs,” said Tomlinson. “Reading aloud helps bring literature to life for children, and I’m worried that without Story Hour, the kids will be getting more TV and less good literature.”

The paragraph provides support for the claim that library funding should not be cut because it provides important services to the community.

Which statement could the writer add to the paragraph to provide additional logical and relevant support for the claim?

A. Studies show that library storytime helps build early literacy skills like phonological awareness, spatial skills, and counting skills.

B. Some libraries have staff members who run their storytime program, while other libraries invite different interest groups in to lead storytime for a day.

C. Of all library programs, storytime is the most rewarding and fun for the staff.

D. Library storytime is a source of wonderful memories for children and adults alike.

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