"It was no wonder, when she stood one day against the stone pillar in whose shadow she had lain asleep, eighteen years before, that Armand Aubigny riding by and seeing her there, had fallen in love with her. That was the way all the Aubignys fell in love, as if struck by a pistol shot. The wonder was that he had not loved her before; for he had known her since his father brought him home from Paris, a boy of eight, after his mother died there. The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles."

What is the central conflict in this short, descriptive excerpt from "Desiree's Baby," by Kate Chopin?

A) Man vs. Man
B) Man vs. Self
C) Man vs. Nature
D) Man vs. Technology

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.