Read the scenario and answer the question that follows: michelle has a conversation with her sister. she wants to discuss an argument the two of them had a few minutes earlier. michelle begins the conversation by slouching in the seat next to her sister while looking around the room as she speaks. michelle then begins to accuse her sister of causing too much trouble around the house. what action should michelle take in order to communicate more effectively? allow her sister to also speak about the trouble she thinks michelle is causing alternate among looking her sister in the eye, looking around the room, and looking down force her sister to say she is sorry talk about her observations, thoughts, feelings, and what she wants to happen next

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.