The paragraph contains several unnecessary words, including empty words, expletives, wordy phrases, and redundancies. Decide if the underlined selection needs to be revised or if it is correct as is. It seems that one of the most important texts of Mesoamerica is the Quiché Mayan work called the Popol Vuh. There is no certainty about the origins of the work, since the first known written version is a phonetic transcription of oral Quiché mythology concerning creation and the genealogy of a royal Mayan lineage. The written text seems to have been prepared during the mid-sixteenth century, after the Spanish conquest, but the manuscript is lost. Debates about authorship also seem to exist due to the fact that the point of view of the genealogy portion is quite very clearly biased. The creation myth is a story of quite a number of attempts to create man, from mud, wood, and finally maize. The Mayan world portrayed in the story is filled with rivalries, violence, and transformation of characters. There are both male and female characters who are treacherous and cunning as they trick their rivals and compete for power and recognition.

Which option below would be an acceptable revision of the underlined selection?

hello! i am thinking the answer is d. to convince parliament to go to war against nazi germany

sorry if i am wrong

hey there hope this answers it correctly.

people will be informed about what goes into a balanced meal.

people will consider eating more balanced meals.

when connie willis was 12 years old, her mother died. in january of 2003, willis was interviewed for locus magazine. she recognized that death is a major issue in her writing, specially because the vacuous and appalling things that people tend to say in order to support you when someone you loved dies. what really saved willis was reading. books, literature, are not false. poetry tells the truth (as dickinson said: "tell al the truth but tell it slant"). it's not a escape from reality, but a nigromantic experience where whe can talk to people that exist no more. that's the definition that connie willis gives in her novel "passage": «(literature) it's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! ». enrique vila-matas has figured out the esence of literary experience when he said in a lecture that he intends to have his revenge against life (and death), because to write (and to read) is a form of living and a way to remember. i like in that sense the idea of not leting anything human to get lost. i feel fiction and poetry as the shapes of an ancient anger. like in the poem from dylan thomas: «do not go gentle into that good night / rage, rage against the dying of the light».

but there is another aspect that i have learned from connie willis's quote. in his famous work "danubio", the italian writer claudio magris describes literature as house removals. some messages reach us, other messages get lost in the labyrinth. those messages which are our inheritance teach us how to live and how to die, how to love and how to hate, how to laugh and how to cry. i think that tales really shape us if we listen to them. maybe through the stories we read we learn how to emphatize with others, knowing that the bells tolls for every each of us.