In "president cleveland, where are you? " why does armand have "desperation in his eyes" and no appetite for his mother's special butterscotch pie?
a.
he is sick because jerry will not him.
b.
he is in love with a girl from the north side.
c.
he is trying to save enough money for his father's birthday present.
d.
he is afraid that his parents will find out that he has been bossing jerry around.

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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

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