Mrs. Geist is working with her class to find out why some people live longer than others. Which assignment would best exemplify popular thinking after the Scientific Revolution? Mrs. Geist instructing her class to interview three healthy older people
Mrs. Geist requiring her students to read three books on aging and health
Mrs. Geist asking her class to research “old wives’ tales” on health
Mrs. Geist telling her students to take notes on two research studies

A(n) is an alliance or collection of parties.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

For an actor, keeping his mind on will ultimately his performance.