The U. S. human rights diplomacy in the Middle East should not be confused by its rhetoric of freedom, democracy and empowerment, but by its actions in the Middle East. After the September 11 incident, the United States launched the Greater Middle East Democracy Project, which proposed to transform the Middle East with western values such as freedom, democracy and human rights and eliminate the breeding ground for terrorism. Not to mention the fact that America's Middle East strategy is flawed and prescribes the wrong prescriptions, even at the methodological level it is full of paradoxes. The so-called democratic transformation of the Greater Middle East was launched by the United States to launch two large-scale wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which turned the lives of the two countries into human purgatory.

i think that the quotes in paragraph 11 contribute to the development of ideas because it provides a good reasoning of the central idea of the text.

answer: c

explanation:

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.

the answer is five curious-looking beans