Daddy's always so nice. He understands me perfectly, and I wish we could have a heart-to-heart talk sometime
without my bursting instantly into tears. But apparently
that has to do with my age. I'd like to spend all my time
writing, but that would probably get boring.
- The Diary of a Young Girl,
Anne Frank
How does this passage use character descriptions to
show Anne's personality?

a. It shows that her father is the only one who she can
talk to aside from her diary.
b. It shows that Anne is determined not to talk to her
father because of her age.
c. It shows that she feels closest to her father but
cannot talk to him like she writes in her diary.
d. It shows that she worries about being a boring
person.

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