Please help me paraphrase this!! And explain why you chose to use the paraphrasing you used and how you think your voice of paraphrasing affects the meaning and "feel" of the paraphrase. Paul entered the faculty room suave and smiling. His clothes had been a trifle outgrown, and the tan velvet at the collar of his open overcoat turned into frayed and worn; but for all that there has been some thing of the dandy about him, and he wore an opal pin in his neatly knotted black 4-in-hand, and a crimson carnation in his buttonhole. This latter adornment the school someway felt become now not properly big of the contrite spirit befitting q boy beneath the ban of suspension.

Read this passage from alan weisman's "the city without us": he props his running shoe against the whitish bark of a chinese amur cork tree, growing among the last of the hemlocks. "this may sound blasphemous, but maintaining biodiversity is less important than maintaining a functioning ecosystem. what matters is that soil is protected, that water gets cleaned, that trees filter the air, that a canopy regenerates new seedlings to keep nutrients from draining away into the bronx river." now read this passage from jared diamond's "the ends of the world as we know them": both the shoguns and the japanese peasants took a long-term view: the former expected to pass on their power to their children, and the latter expected to pass on their land. . today, despite having the highest human population density of any large developed country, japan is more than 70 percent forested. what common theme of green literature is most strongly evident in both passages? a. in order to thrive in coming centuries, people must find viable alternatives to fossil fuels, such as coal. b. with careful and intelligent management, ecosystems can still thrive after human beings have changed them. c. in order meet their goals, environmentalists must people develop a personal desire to protect nature. d. there is no excuse for damaging the natural world, and anyone who does so will pay a steep price.