Refer to the Newsela article “Should We Abolish the Electoral College?” The author of the CON argument states that in a majority-wins election, candidates would spend more time in the most populated states and cities and rarely travel to rural areas.

Which statement best explains how the author of the PRO argument interprets this idea?

The legislative branch protects smaller states equally, so a presidential candidate's focus does not matter.

The electoral system produces a situation where most political power is given to the minority.

The legislative branch is already designed to encourage candidates to spread their efforts over many states.

The electoral system encourages candidates to concentrate their efforts on states with many electoral votes.

Direct characterization includes select all that apply. statements by the author about a character's personality statements by the author about a character's appearance statements by the author about what a character is like statements by the character about what they hate

Poets use personification to enhance the reader's understanding of the meaning of the poem describe an object the reader make connections all of these answers are correct

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.