Read the excerpt from warriors don't cry. the next day, in the sunday paper, i saw a pitiful closeup photograph of elizabeth, walking alone in front of central on that first day of integration. it pained my insides to see, once again, the twisted, scowling white faces with open mouths jeering, clustered about my friend's head like bouquets of grotesque flowers. it was an ad paid for by a white man from a small town in arkansas. "if you live in arkansas," the ad read, "study this picture and know shame. when hate is unleashed and bigotry finds a voice, god us all." i felt a kind of joy and hope in the thought that one white man was willing to use his own money to call attention to the injustice we were facing. maybe the picture would others realize that what they were doing was hurting everybody. what is the central idea of the excerpt? there is cruelty in the adult world that children do not witness. the kids integrating schools have achieved national fame in the media. the kids integrating schools are holding interviews to explain their mission. there is sympathy and support for the children struggling to integrate schools.

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