It may be asked: how could the soviet government have consented to conclude a non-aggression pact with such treacherous fiends as hitler and ribbentrop? was not this an error on the part of the soviet government? of course not! non-aggression pacts are pacts of peace between two states. it was such a pact that germany proposed to us in 1939. could the soviet government have declined such a proposal? i think that not a single peace-loving state could decline a peace treaty with a neighboring state even though the latter was headed by such fiends and cannibals as hitler and ribbentrop. which of the following statements explains a logical fallacy in this excerpt?   a. stalin veers off topic, distracting his audience rather than admitting he was wrong to sign the nonaggression pact.  b. stalin claims he was not wrong to pursue peace, and then he restates that same argument in different words instead of providing evidence.  c. stalin claims he was lying when he attempted to pursue peace, and then he suggests that he was in fact telling the truth.  d. stalin introduces the idea that everyone signs nonaggression pacts, suggesting that doing so was right because it was popular.

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.

In the myth of demeter persephone and hades what happens when demeter learns that her daughter has been kidnapped