Read this summary of Passage 1. (1) Where a person fits within the family birth order probably determines that person's character traits.
(2) Birth order theory focuses on patterns.

Which sentence belongs in the summary between sentences 1 and 2?

A) Data exists to support birth order theory.
B) Parenting styles are more important than birth order.
C) Little information exists about characteristics of only children.
D) Most successful people support birth order theory.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

The tone of a story is the author's attitude toward the subject. provide two examples that support the conclusion that the tone of this story is ironic.

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