5the sacramento region used great power in the decade of the 1850s, in spite of its small resident population, when compared to san francisco. the largest portion of the state's population lived in the "sacramento district." sacramento representatives strongly influenced the state's constitutional convention, landed the permanent state capitol, and elected the state's first governor. sacramento’s influence was in large part due to its growth in commerce, particularly that portion related to transportation such as railroads and steamboats, as well as wholesale merchants who supplied retailers throughout california and nevada. those large-scale merchants of sacramento saw their success tied to better wagon roads and railroads. in this sentence from paragraph five,
which phrase is the least effective replacement for the phrase "used great power"?
a) applied great power
b) exerted great power
c) employed great power
d) squandered great power

the LEAST effective replacement for the phrase "used great power": D) squandered great power

Explanation:

The phrase "used great power" means that the Sacramento region had great power/ great influence in the decade of the 1850s.

So "applied great power", "exerted great power" and "employed great power" could be considered synonyms of this phrase.

The phrase "squandered great power" would be wrong to use in this context, because "to squander" means to "waste" and Sacramento wasn't wasting its power - quite the contrary, as it's said in the text Sacramento had a powerful voice -> "Sacramento's influence was in large part due to its growth in commerce, particularly that portion related to transportation".

write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrators’ schools and explain how their schools shape their perspectives toward the hijab. cite evidence from the text to support your ideas.

copy and paste answer:

two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrator's schools would be this, the one school with the veil is the one school were the students were forced to wear the veils, and they did not know why they had to wear the veils. the girl student writing the story was not like the other students, she didn't care. in the second school there was a lot of hostile activities going on throughout the school. most of the students were upset and this, including the author, but she was trying to look and the good side of things.  

overall, both schools had something that the students or most of the students did not like or appreciate. what you can learn from these stories is that life will never be exactly how you may want it to be. complaining about your lifestyle will only make matters worse or at least feel worse in the long run. that's happens to be the information you can interpret from these two stories.

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