Read this excerpt from "President Kennedy's Speech at Rice University." It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.

What does incumbency mean as it is used in this excerpt?

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Is this personification? "i have played the fox, now i must play the cat of the fable"

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

Which of the following questions could you ask in a discussion on vacation destinations to establish common ground?