Explain the difference between the Electoral College vote and the popular vote. How does this difference sometimes create tension? Cite evidence from the text in your response.

The electoral college is the vote that determines who the president will be. It is a group of voters established by the Constitution that represent each state individually based on the population within each state. So bigger states will have more representatives going to vote than smaller states. The popular vote helps to determine who the most popular candidate is in each individual state, the votes within each state get tallied up and then the electoral college gets to go and hopefully vote for the candidate that was most popular, but they can generally choose whoever they want to. Because of this, people whose candidate didn't get chosen as most popular will be upset with their state and their electoral college for going with the opposition. These two votes are just another way to divide our nation.  (Hope this helps you understand it a bit more, I know I couldn't provide you with any citations but I'm sure with this clarification it will be easier to find evidence to back up)

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

answer: d.she abandons people when they least expect it.

in the monk's tale, we encounter seventeen stories that relate historical events. all of these stories have tragic commonalities. they tell the stories of heroes who, despite their success in life, all met sad ends. the monk blames these sad outcomes on fortune. one of fortune's traits is that she abandons people when they least expect it. this is one of the most common themes of medieval tragedies.