Environmentalist lauren reid wrote a letter to the mayor of her city. in it, she encouraged the mayor to promote planting trees in the city. which sentence from lauren’s letter contains the warrant part of the argument? urban forests can communities by reducing several potential effects of climate change. at the same time, transforming yards and vacant properties into natural areas makes good sense. it will benefit wildlife, make our neighborhoods more beautiful, and increase property values. trees can also prevent the increased flooding that is expected because of climate change. urban trees and green space allow more water to naturally soak into the earth. that, in turn, reduces flooding in backyards and city streets. it can also reduce the strain on storm water systems. it is estimated that a typical medium-sized tree can take in as much as 2,380 gallons of rainfall per year. that means it can reduce runoff and erosion from storms by about 7 percent. by reducing runoff, forested areas protect our city from the damaging effects of heavy rainfall.

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