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students attending schools with mandatory uniform policies experience less pressure than do students who must
choose their wardrobes. this is because school uniforms allow students and their parents to save money and time.
the financial investment in uniforms at the beginning of the school year is far more economical than the purchase of an
entire wardrobe of designer clothes and trendy styles. students who do not have to deliberate what to wear each
moming are able to invest their time in more productive ways, such as studying for tests or finishing homework
uniforms may stifte students' self expression, but there are many other ways to reveal one's individuality at school.
which revision would best strengthen the author's main argument?
• the omission of the author's point of view
• the addition of more general statements and ideas
• the correction of spelling and punctuation errors
• the inclusion of reputable sources and specific facts
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Create a purpose statement based on the graphic organizer in "section ii: finding the main point."

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