Read the passage from "veterans appreciate our gratitude, but what they need most is our ." after the trumpet was sounded and the flag folded, a member of the honor guard knelt in front of my frail, aging mother, looked her directly in the eye and in a soft voice, her--and my father--for his service.

which best explains how word choice establishes tone?

the words trumpet, honor, and guard create a tone of ferocity.

the words frail, aging, and soft create a sense of weakness.

the words trumpet, honor, and knelt create a tone of respect.

the words mother, honor, and service create a tone of patriotism.

In mandatory military service in america one of the main arguments states that americans should share benefits and responsibilities of citizenship.

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

If you want to change from landscape orientation to portrait orientation, what would you do? turn the camera around. flip the camera over. turn the camera 90 degrees. turn the camera 360 degrees.