In paragraph 2, the word captivating means
a) peculiar.
b) menacing.
c) fascinating.
d) impractical.

paragraph two-
the human characters in the novel are just as captivating. the main human character, kate waterbee, is a typical thirteen-year-old. she is secretly angry with her parents because they have no decent excuse for forbidding her from getting a pet. kate believes that “allergies would have at least evoked some sympathy. but her parents’ noses and eyes could handle a dog or a kitty. it is their worried minds that fear an animal whining at them all the time.” while with their mellow daughter, kate’s parents fear adopting a needy, demanding pet could alter that attribute.

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What functions as a reflexive pronoun in the sentence the professor herself wanted to attend the conference, but it was cancelled when she and several other presenters had to excuse themselves

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