One of Sam Houston’s biggest goals and challenges in his second term as president of Texas was to balance the Republic’s budget. Houston drastically reduced spending in several areas of the military. Do you think this was a wise decision or not? How else could Sam Houston have balanced the budget of Texas at the time?

Sam Houston should have not reduced spending in the military because the military needed more money at the time and he could balance out the budget by reducing the pay of schools

among the options given on the question the correct answer is option d.

tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

explanation: the excerpt is from "mother tongue" is an essay by amy tan. the purpose of writing this essay was describe the challenging situation of someone who was raised in a family where the parents could not speak proper english and the influence of the situation.people also could judge the individual for the poor english.

however, amy tan described the english of her mother as broken according to the other people. but every time, she referred as broken she winced. because, she began to understand the world with her mother's english.she could understand her mother's english.

therefore, tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

the noble might have thought that the system was far because they had lot of things and riches and the serf would have thought that the feudal system was un fair because of the way they were treated.