Recall that there are two kinds of life changes: social change and personal change. An example of a personal change might be moving to a new town. An example of a social change might be how many people have moved from using landline telephones to using mobile phones. In the space provided, describe some of the changes going on in your life right now. Brainstorm your ideas and write them down. Remember, while brainstorming you don’t have to worry about organization or grammar. Brainstorming includes freewriting, cluster maps, and even a bulleted list of ideas. Make sure that you include both personal changes and social changes. In terms of social changes, your response might include some of the following: What changes in technology have occurred recently? Are there other changes happening in society that you can think of? How have those changes affected you? Are they positive or negative changes? In terms of personal changes, your response might include some of the following: What has happened in your life recently? Have you learned any new skills or concepts? Have you had any new experiences? Did you make any new friends? How have those changes affected you? Are they positive or negative changes?

Which statement best paraphrases these sentences from the text

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.

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