Read the excerpt from a position paper by the rhode island department of administration, and answer the question that follows. diversity is the recognition, acknowledgement, and valuing of individual differences. in a diverse workforce and a diverse community, we must ensure the equitable treatment of individuals in all matters relating to delivery of state services, state business and employment practices… back in 1999, the governor brought together a team of individuals from around state government to discuss ways that the state personnel process could be reformed to contribute to improvement of the government’s bottom line. the diversity initiative was established as an outcome of discussions. which of the following identifies the organization’s purpose for this document? to convince people that a diverse workforce is important to explain that diversity is the recognition, acknowledgement, and valuing of individual differences to explain the importance and origin of the state’s diversity initiative to persuade people to support state services

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

Has anyone ever read the poem “at a window “ by carl sandburg? there are a few multiple choice questions i have to answer about it.

The author’s purpose for including this in the introduction is