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passage 1

sometimes, i wonder if i am alive, i feel so little. here are some of the ways i ignore the messages my body is sending me: consulting a clock to see if i’ve had enough sleep trying to recall how much i have eaten in order to know how hungry i am putting on glasses when my eyes hurt, instead of resting them using aspirin and antacids breathing through my mouth, which has no sense of smell putting thick-soled shoes between me and the ground

passage 2 everything spring she scooped up life like spring flowers, feeling the earth with her bare feet. she breathed in the fragrance and described her experience with a merry twinkle. sometimes a musical laugh. nothing escaped her notice, she felt everything.

how are these two pieces of writing similar?

a. both occur in the spring.

b. both involve eyesight.

c. both are about the five senses.

d. both focus mostly on smell.

The poem starfish by lorna dee cervantes. what is the relationship between humans and nature with text evidence

How does the author view the idea that you have to be perfect in order to get into college

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion