Read this excerpt from we beat the street. "but i don’t want to teach—i want to be a doctor or nurse or something medical." "i don’t even know what you have to do to become something like that," sampson said honestly. "i don’t know either," george said. "but i figure you need big piles of money and about a million years to spend in college." "hassan and ahi are going to howard university in d. c.," rameck commented, "but their folks have a little cash." he fell silent. . sampson drove the other two home then, their hopes and dreams left in the starlight. what central idea do the details in this passage support? having little money often makes the friends think that their goals are impossible to achieve. the friends wish they had more time to dedicate to college classes and studies. the world is filled with opportunities as long as the friends are determined to find them. school plays an important role in the friends decide what they want to accomplish.

Ronald sees that his employer's stock has grown from $20 a share to $60 a share this year, while most stocks have seen only 5% growth. his employer offers to let him convert a large portion of his salary into stock options. what is not a valid reason to turn down the stock offer? select the best answer from the choices provided. a. stocks with high returns have high volatility, and ronald's company may not grow further. b. ronald may be taxed more for capital gains than he would be for employment income. c. stock options are illiquid, and ronald may not be able to use them to pay for unexpected bills. d. ronald would be committing stock fraud if he exercises the options.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

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