How does basketball shape the players’ sense of themselves? A. Basketball increases the players’ physical strength.

B. Basketball builds players’ confidence and provides them with a community.

C. Basketball gave the players magical powers so nothing hurt them.

D. Basketball allows the players to compete against each other to show who is the best.

Which of the following questions could you ask in a discussion on vacation destinations to establish common ground?

What is the allure of fear? what have you learned from the story about portrayals of fear in literature?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.