The executives cheered their CEO at the meeting when he promised to save the company from bankruptcy within 6 months. They were certain that he would fail. What is the best way to combine these sentences?

A
The executives cheered their CEO at the meeting when he promised to save the company from bankruptcy within 6 months; they were certain that he would fail.

B
They were certain that he would fail; unfortunately, the executives cheered their CEO at the meeting when he promised to save the company from bankruptcy within 6 months.

C
They were certain that he would fail, and the executives cheered their CEO at the meeting when he promised to save the company from bankruptcy within 6 months.

D
The executives cheered their CEO at the meeting when he promised to save the company from bankruptcy within 6 months; although, they were certain that he would fail.

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

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

As you read in this lesson, satire depends on the audience recognizing and agreeing with the satirist’s implicit criticism of his or her target. how effective can satire be in shaping behavior or opinions if the audience is always in on the joke and thus never the target? your answer should be at least 250 words.