After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates. . . Expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldn't be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way. Which characteristic of a successful entrepreneur does Edison exhibit in this quote? drive, self-confidence, and a clear vision of a goal an ability to learn from mistakes and adapt to new knowledge a willingness to take responsibility for success or failure a sense of responsibility to society.

in "people in peace, not profit and war" chrisholm uses inductive reasoning for her argument against defense spending by stating that the new administration, like most americans, wanted to invest in social objectives, so they must not want to prioritize defense spending. mr. nixon said "we can delay no longer in launching new approaches to the problem that beset them", but chrisholm points out that the programs were delayed anyways.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the answer is b:   the american composer and singer bob dylan composed many songs, by which he is very famous and considered one of the mosts influencial artists of pop music. he was awarded the nobel prize in literature for his type of poetry. but the huge impact his songs had are due to both lyrics and music, without which the message would lose strength.

pennfoster ? here you go

1. heat

2. acquitted, exonerated

3. rough

4. common

5. hate

6. harmful, toxic

7. public

8. apart

9. despise

10. careless

11. put

12. received

13. become

14. received

15. persuaded

16. make