What is the significance of angelou's admiration for william shakespeare?
a. she rebels against her grandmother's views of racism.
b. she loves beautiful language and appreciates many kinds of writers.
c. she uses shakespeare's works as a buffer between her and other children.
d. she grows up to write many shakespearean sonnets.

According to stephen hawking in the "origin of the universe" lecture, "why are we here" and "where did we come from" are questions that

Coming to school each day, having the necessary materials, and to do homework students to be successful in school. choose the answer that is the most effective substitute for the underlined part of the sentence. if no substitute is necessary, choose ‘leave as is.’ a) leave as is. b) coming to school each day, have the necessary materials, and do homework c) come to school each day, having the necessary materials, and to do homework d) coming to school each day, having the necessary materials, and doing homework

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