[The Taliban] had taken over her city in the Swat Valley, in northwestern Pakistan.

It was such a beautiful place once, so lush and untouched that tourists flocked there to ski. But that was before 2003, when the Taliban began using it as a base for operations in nearby Afghanistan.

—“Pakistan’s Malala,”

Ashley Fantz

What changed people’s viewpoint about the Swat Valley?

1. The Swat turned into a big city and lost its natural beauty.

2. Tourists flocked there, and it became too crowded.

3. The Taliban began using it as a military base.

4. It was no longer lush and untouched.

Wiesel interrupts the narration that begin with, "a few ss officers wandered through the room, " with a parenthetical insertion. explain the purpose of the insertion.

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that. which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious. b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world. c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love. d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.

Read the sentence from alexander’s paper. when asked if she was loyal enough to become a secret agent, keysha answered in the affirmative. in which revised sentence did alexander change the underlined word to use it as an noun? since she was affirmably loyal, keysha was able to become a secret agent. before becoming a secret agent, keysha needed to affirm her loyalty. as an affirmation of her loyalty, keysha agreed to become a secret agent. once she finally affirmed her loyalty, keysha became a secret agent.