Read this excerpt from “life without go-go boots” by barbara kingsolver and answer the question.

we lived in the country, in the middle of an alfalfa field; we had no immediate access to bobbie brooks sweaters. i went to school in the hand-me-downs of a cousin three years older.1 she had excellent fashion sense, but during the three-year lag her every sleek outfit turned to a pumpkin.2 … my black lace-up oxfords, which my parents perceived to have orthopedic value, carried their own weight in the spectacle.3 i suspected people noticed, and i knew it for sure on the day billy stamps announced to the lunch line, “make way for the bride of frankenstein.”4

which of the numbered sentences from the excerpt shows the most commentary and why?

2 – is about fairy tales
4 – quotes popular culture
1 – says something about family’s social and economic status
3 – is about medical value of shoes

Whats the best lie you told and got away with?

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

Read the paragraph many kids do not like to exercise. they do not realize that it is for their own good exercise is good for the body. there are many types of exercise activities to choose from. an activity such as running increases circulation lifting weights builds muscle and strengthens bones playing a sport such as basketball can improve coordination so pick an activity and get your exercisel what is the big picture idea in the paragraph? many kids do not like to exercise exercise is good for the body an activity such as running increases circulation lifting weights builds muscle and strengthens