We are each shaped by the people who gave us life. everything we are and all that we do can be traced back, in one way or another, to early influences: parents, family, a home or the lack of a home. in my case, four figures from my childhood to make me who i am, each giving me a gift that is unique: my father, my mother, my grandmother, and my grandfather. to understand me, you have to know them. the excerpt above is from page 35 of nothing's impossible: leadership lessons from inside and outside the classroom by lorraine monroe. paraphrase, summarize, and quote

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

According to the new york times article, death of a salesman connects to modern audiences since it deals with elusive success and financial ruin such as occurred on wall street in 2006-2008. question 2 options: a) true b) false

In the sentence from barbara kingsolver’s “life without go go boots”, “writers are supposed to be eccentric,” the word eccentric is a euphemism for