Read the following excerpt from "Woman Who Helped Hide Anne Frank Dies at 100" by Teri Schultz. Ms. MIEP GIES: I, myself, I'm just a very common person. I simply had no choice. I could foresee many, many sleepless nights and a life filled with regret if I would have refused to help the Franks. And this was not the kind of life I was looking for at all. Which answer best paraphrases the central idea of this excerpt? Miep’s conscience would not let her deny helping the Frank family. Miep was a very good individual who felt the need to help the Franks. Miep did not consider herself to be an extraordinary human being. Miep did not want to suffer from sleepless nights for the rest of her life.

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

"introduction to oedipus the king": what is most likely the author's intent in writing about the difference(s) between sophocles's play and the original myth on which it's based?

What do the sketches of 9/11 victims in "portraits of grief" achieve?