B: which detail from the text best supports the answer to part a? (ri.1.2/ri.1.1)
a. “there seems to be a lot of talk these days about what is fair, and what is not."
(paragraph 1)
b. “it doesn't matter whether you are born with a silver spoon, plastic spoon, or no
spoon at all." (paragraph 6)
c. “fair blends to a norm, and in doing so, it limits, inhibits, stifles, and restricts, all
under the guise of balance and equality.” (paragraph 7)
d. "your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it
opportunity." (paragraph 12)
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The purpose of using personification in the excerpt is to show how? enrique’s journey.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these