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which explanation provides the best evidence to support the interpretation that brutus is a patriot?
a.) brutus risks making his wife angry when he refuses to tell her what weighs on his heart and mind. he values national security over his wife's feelings.
b.) brutus sacrifices his sleep in order to meet secretly with the other conspirators under the cover of night. he protects anyone willing to die for rome.
c.) brutus admits that caesar has not done anything wrong to him personally. instead, he feels caesar must die because of what he may do to rome.
d.)brutus refuses to make an oath with the other conspirators because his only commitment is to the glory of the roman empire and her people.

How did the older men calm the younger ones down when they learned from some of the prisoners where they were? (chapter 3 of the book night)

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.

In the declaration of independence, thomas jefferson states that governments derive their power from