This decision represented the consensus of the science committee for the rose center's design and construction, of which i served as head. while the accountability and originality of our pedagogical approach to the subject lies equally among us on the committee, as director of the hayden planetarium i became the most visible exponent of this decision when, a full year after the rose center opened to the public, the new york times broke a page-1 news story that we had demoted pluto from its ranks of planethood. i was henceforth branded a public enemy of pluto lovers the world over. neil degrasse tyson, the pluto files what is the main idea of this paragraph? a. dr. tyson is the director of the hayden planetarium and has been involved with the exhibits at the rose center for many years. b. the science committee is usually responsible for most of the scientific exhibits that are displayed in the rose center. c. even though the decision about pluto was made by a lot of people, dr. tyson received the most negative attention for it. d. the rose center was designed specifically to house exhibits that focused on astronomy or models of the solar system.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

In virginia woolf's essay "a room of one's own," she creates a fictional sister of william shakespeare, whom she names "judith." what challenges does woolf claim this character would have experienced in her lifetime? why does woolf believe that elizabethan women did not write?

Why did orson welles change the beginning of the war of the worlds for his radio broadcast? a. to capture the attention of his listeners, who may have been doing other things b. to get around copyright laws associated with using material from a published book c. to ask members of the audience to call family and friends and encourage them to listen d. to remind listeners to call police for more information