Read the sentence from the article: I wonder what it would be like to have lived in a house where there were ruler marks beside a
door frame, documenting each of my childhood growth spurts; to have a friend who's known
me since nursery; not to feel like a tourist, wandering around with a map in a country that I'm
supposed to embrace as my own.
How does this sentence contribute to the effectiveness of the author's argument
overall?
O by presenting her conflicting feelings about her own
language
xperiences through highly emotional
O by referencing common childhood experiences that emphasize her feelings of being in limbo
by establishing her understanding of the way that most people who are not TCKs grow up
O by illustrating her resentment of the childhood that her parents' choices caused her to
experience

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