Read the excerpt from chapter 8 of the travels of marco polo.
this province produces great quantities of excellent white incense, and also dates in great abundance. no grain is grown here except rice, and not much of that; but it is imported from abroad at a big profit. fish is plentiful, notably tunnies of large size, which are so abundant that two of them can be bought for a venetian groat. the staple diet consists of rice, meat, and fish. . as for the incense of which i have spoken, which grows here in such profusion, the lord buys it for 10 gold bezants a cantar and then sells it to foreign merchants and others for 40 bezants a cantar. the lord of shihr does this on behalf of the sultan of the province of aden. for the sultan of aden has incense bought up throughout his dominions at the price of 10 bezants and afterwards sold at 40 from which he derives an immense profit.
which detail best indicates the author's opinion of the incense that this province produces?
a) the author notes that the incense is produced in "great quantities."
b) the author uses the phrase "immense profit" to describe the value of the incense.
c) the author includes the detail that the lord "sells it to foreign merchants."
d) the author uses the word "excellent" to describe the incense grown in the province.

write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrators’ schools and explain how their schools shape their perspectives toward the hijab. cite evidence from the text to support your ideas.

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two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrator's schools would be this, the one school with the veil is the one school were the students were forced to wear the veils, and they did not know why they had to wear the veils. the girl student writing the story was not like the other students, she didn't care. in the second school there was a lot of hostile activities going on throughout the school. most of the students were upset and this, including the author, but she was trying to look and the good side of things.  

overall, both schools had something that the students or most of the students did not like or appreciate. what you can learn from these stories is that life will never be exactly how you may want it to be. complaining about your lifestyle will only make matters worse or at least feel worse in the long run. that's happens to be the information you can interpret from these two stories.

the president was the speaker and it was a great part of history.

explanation:

video of the national aeronautic space administration's (nasa) coverage of president john f. kennedy’s address at rice university, houston, texas, concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. in his speech the president discusses the necessity for the united states to become an international leader in space exploration and famously states, "we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

i think there should be answer choices

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."