We sat across from olya as she tapped her long fingernails
rhythmically on the desk and spoke on the phone to the rep
from willoughby, inc. the project wasn't going as planned.
the letter from willoughby sat next to her, unopened, with
a letter opener beside it. every pencil on her desk was lined
up perfectly - a warning to others not to take one, or else
she would notice. she glared at us shamelessly as she
listened to the rep's reply.
which symbol from the passage most clearly represents a need for control?

Stephen has just finished composing his first poem, entitled clouded memories, for his poetry slam class. he is slated to recite the first 10 lines during class tonight, and repeats them over and over to himself as he is walking there. this is called

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

The correct word to complete the sentence