But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce la
people) under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security. - Such has been the
patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former
Systems of Government. The history of the present King of
Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations...
How do the authors of the Declaration best use deductive reasoning based
on the idea that the colonists have a right to form a new government?
O A. They provide universally accepted examples of what kinds of acts
qualify as acts of tyranny, and then show that the current king of
Great Britain has indeed committed these acts.
O B. They first establish the idea that oppressed people have a right
and duty to replace their government with a better one, and then
argue that British rule of the colonies is one such example.
O C. They state that the current British king has caused great harm to
the American colonies, and then show how the king's actions
reflect the actions of many tyrants throughout history.
O D. They first establish the idea that declaring one's intentions is a
decent and expected measure, and then proceed to declare the
intentions of the colonies to establish a new government

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.