r Amy is planning to write a paper about railroads in America. To guide her research, she has come up with the question, "How have railroads helped America grow?" Her teacher tells her that this question is too broad, so Amy wants to narrow it down. Which choice is the BEST one Amy can use to guide her research? A) How many railroads go through Chicago, Illinois? B) What is the longest railroad in the United States? C) What are the main ways railroads are used in the United States? D) Which countries were the first ones to use railroads in a major way?

C.

Explanation:

Options A and B are too specific. The answer would be short and definite, not lengthy enough to write a paper on.

Option D involves other countries. The paper is supposed to be about railroads in America.  

The only option left is C. This is correct because it has potential for a paper and isn't off-topic or too specific.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

i think the answer is invented words, rhyming knack, alliteration, and, metaphor.