Has anyone read the book "Chains" By Laurie Halse Anderson? If so does anyone know what page this quote is from, “Better me than Ruth, better me than Ruth.”? No links please. Don't answer if you haven't read it and have no idea what I'm talking about.

Apply the idea of the plain language movement to make the paragraph under “before” in section 1 more user-friendly

Must read story will give if ! in “perseverance,” which theme is reflected in the lines, “life’s field will yield as we make it / a harvest of thorns or of flowers”? a: life is a field in which flowers and thorns will grow. b: accept what you are given, because you cannot change it. c: your life is the result of the work you put into it. d: working together people achieve their goals in life.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.