Which best describes the main conflict in the the convict and the bishop

a. valjean struggles to become a good man but his own despair and the prejudices of others make it difficult for him to escape his past and start over.

b. valjean cannot find a place to sleep or anything to eat.

c. the bishop and valjean two very different men-one is good and the other is evil. the tension between them sets up the main conflict of the story.

d. valjean is arrested again for the same crime he committed nearly 20 years ago. he will never escape with justice and be a free man

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Read this sentence. the wind blew, the leaves shook, and the birds flew away. which best describes the structure of this sentence? oa. this sentence places the object before the verb. ob. this sentence places each verb before its subject. oc. this sentence uses a parallel structure but flips the position of thewords. od. this sentence uses parallel subjects and verbs.

The travels of marco polo. what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

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