Which English Philosopher was the first to see the idea of the 3 branches of government being independent and a government with a system of checks and balances? This theory became the foundation for the United States Constitution. Group of answer choices

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Jean Rousseau

Charles Montesquieu

Read the excerpt from an argumentative essay on space exploration. we probably couldn’t go to all the stars because they’re too far away. it would take a long time to get there. the sentences need to be revised for this type of essay because they

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

Which best explains this excerpt’s purpose in the novel’s plot structure? the excerpt creates conflict between characters as part of the rising action. the excerpt provides background information on a character as part of the exposition. the excerpt returns a character to equilibrium as part of the falling action. the excerpt is the point of greatest tension and acts as the climax.