Choose to read either “The Man in the Arena” or “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort.” Then, type the title of the text you selected and write a brief explanation of why you chose the text. How do you plan to analyze and communicate your results?

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

One legend states that the cause of the trojan war was in part due to a contest between the goddesses on olympus and an event called the “judgement of paris.” in at least 150 words, explain the contest and describe how it is believed to have started the trojan war.

At 18 years of age, mary shelley wrote a cautionary tale about the potential consequences of science. how did she use writing to convey this message? how would an 18 year old today convey this message? do not answer if you do not know anything about mary shelley!