Read the following passage
it actually began as a way to prevent strong emotional
attachments. couples were assigned for the sole purpose
of species survival children were reassigned to new
families regularly. the puppeteers went to great lengths to
make sure we were isolated and fractured. but what they
hadn't counted on was that this common tragedy would
unite us – that instead of turning against one another, we
would rally together i was not allowed to raise my own son
and daughter. but i would do my best to love and raise
every displaced son and daughter who came through my
home
which two central ideas in this story are most closely related?
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a. government control and the resilience of the human spirit
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b. the limits of human endurance and personal identity
o
c. abuse of power and the potential of technology
o
d. the universal need for acceptance and family dynamics
e previous
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Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,