2. It was Sean's first day at a new high school. Most of the students had been nice to him, until he got into gym
class. The coach had assigned two captains, Mike and Malik, and they were picking teams from the boys in Sean's
class. As Mike and Malik made their picks, it became pretty clear to Sean who was popular and who was not
Since Sean was short for his age, Mike and Malik just assumed that Sean could not play basketball As Mike and
Malik's choices dwindled, Sean still remained amongst an ever shimming pool of struggling athletes. Now there
were only two students left: Scan and another kid who seemed nice but was reading a book Mike and Malik
joked about who was going to get stuck with whom, and then Mike made his last pick. It was not Sean Sean
sighed and reluctantly joined Malik's team. As soon as the game began, Mike became aware of the error that he
had made. Sean quickly stole the ball from him and ran it back for a layup, "The new kid got lucky," Mike
remarked, but it soon became clear that Scan had more going for him than luck What Sean lacked in height, he
made up for in speed, and he continued to dominate the action on the court for the remainder of the game. With
Sean's blazing speed and crazy crossovers, Malik's team devastated Mike's, and that was the only time that Sean
would be last pick at that high school
What is the theme of the story?

How do details form the excerpts support the purpose of advocating for children from central america?

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Need the answer asap! read the sentence from the declaration of independence. which idea does this sentence best to develop ? that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government a) governments ultimately have the power to determine what rights the people have. b) revolting against the government should not be taken lightly. c) the colonists should seperate from great britain and create their own government. d) it is self evident that people have inalienable rights