Which sentence in this excerpt from Nathan’s memoir, "The Big Race," reflects the main idea of the story? Being a teenager can be a real challenge. A million different people have a million different expectations from you. Your mother wants you to play soccer, while your brother wants you to take up football. I have definitely felt the weight of these expectations. When I was 13 years old my mother signed me up for the school track team. “I am not good at running,” I would whine every time she pushed me to try. I could barely run a mile without getting all tired and exhausted. I did not have the body of an athlete. I was this little, skinny kid with the stamina of an old man. I hated it.

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.

- a government ruled by the people, or assembly. officials monarchy - a single ruler like a king. over time some city-states, like athens would change governments. what this means is that all the citizens voted on all the laws.

he was able to speed up production of the processing of seeds