Prompt - Write a five-paragraph essay that compares the leadership style of a modern-day world leader to Machiavelli’s ideas about effective leadership as set forth in The Prince. Machiavelli said that leaders should "proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity.” Choose a world leader and discuss how this leader does or does not represent Machiavelli’s ideas in action. Describe specific decisions that the leader has made, and analyze how they compare and contrast with Machiavelli’s thinking in The Prince. Be sure to cite the sources of your information below the essay.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Which themes are portrayed through juliet’s monologue?

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way