Which revision of the final sentence best achieves Jan's purpose?
Read the excerpt from Jan's rhetorical analysis of
Hillary Clinton's address to the United Nations Fourth
World Conference on Women. Jan is analyzing
Clinton's use of parallelism to highlight how women's
rights affect communities.
Clinton states, "If women are healthy and educated,
their families will flourish. If women are free from
violence, their families will flourish. If women have a
chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in
society, their families will flourish. And when families
flourish, communities and nations do as well." Here,
Clinton uses parallelism to achieve her purpose of
bringing "dignity and respect to women."
O Repeating the word "flourish" creates a positive tone
and achieves the purpose of bringing "dignity and
respect to women."
O Mentioning families and communities conveys
inclusivity and achieves the purpose of bringing
"dignity and respect to women."
O By repeating the phrases "if women" and "families
will flourish," Clinton uses parallelism to clarify whom
she wants to help
O Clinton's use of parallelism and repetition of the
word "flourish" underscores the power of women's
rights to build a better world for everyone.

The boy and the wolf by james baldwin one day word came that a savage wolf had been seen in the forest. "how i should like to meet that wolf," said little gilbert. he was only seven years old, but now all his thoughts were about the savage beast. "shall we take a walk this morning? " asked his mother. "oh, yes! " said gilbert. "perhaps we may see that wolf among the trees. but don't be afraid." his mother smiled, for she felt quite sure that there was no danger. what point of view does the author use in this selection?

Form two real words by combining a prefix and/or suffix with the root listed below. if you need to, use your dictionary. then illustrate that the word has the meaning of that root by using one of those words in a sentence. example: dic, dict=to say 1. addiction 2. edict the judge's edict was the final say in that matter. mit, mis=send

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