Which is the participial phrase from this sentence?

removing his glasses, the teacher sighed deeply and told his class that he had been very disappointed with the quality of their last essay assignment.
a) removing his glasses
b) had been very disappointed
c) sighed deeply and told his class
d) with the quality of their last essay assignment

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

If chopin were your music teacher, what techniques would he probably expect you to develop and practice? use details and information from the passage to explain your answer.

According to scholasticism, truth is god's?