Read this excerpt from i never had it made. here we go again, i thought. another time-wasting experience. but sukeforth looked like a sincere person, and i thought i might as well listen. i agreed to meet him that night. when we met, sukeforth got right to the point. mr. rickey wanted to talk to me about the possibility of becoming a brown dodger. if i could get a few days off and go to brooklyn, my fare and expenses would be paid. at first i said that i couldn't leave my team and go to brooklyn just like that. sukeforth wouldn't take no for an answer. he pointed out that i couldn't play for a few days anyhow because of my bum arm. why should my team object? i continued to hold out and demanded to know what would happen if the monarchs fired me. the dodger scout replied quietly that he didn't believe that would happen. i shrugged and said i'd make the trip. i figured i had nothing to lose. which statement best summarizes this excerpt? a)although robinson is skeptical, sukeforth convinces him to travel to brooklyn to meet rickey. b)although robinson is injured, sukeforth convinces him he should play for the dodgers. c)after robinson hurts his arm, he takes a trip to brooklyn to explain his injuries to rickey. d)after robinson meets sukeforth, he expresses concerns about his job security with the monarchs.

Review the previous excerpt from barbra jordan’s speech. answer the following 3 questions in the space below.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)

Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?