You are walking after dark. a sudden noise frightens you. your heart pounds, your pulse races, and your breathing rate increases. these responses

sympathetic nervous system

Explanation:

The sympathetic nervous system controls essential parts of the body such as heart rate, body temperature, breathing, sweating, digestion, etc. It directs the rapid involuntary reaction of the body to dangerous or stressful situations. This system allows humans to make quick internal adjustments and to respond without thinking about it. Therefore whenever a body comes across a physical stress or challenging situations this system prepares the body either to flee or fight.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

the correct answer is "c": the pillars proclaimed his regret at the bloodshed at the battle of kalinga and his conversion to buddhism.

the kalinga war is considered as one of the largest battles in the history of india. it was fought between the between the maurya empire, which ruled the lands of what is now known as india at the time, and the independent feudal kingdom of kalinga.

the army of maurya empire, led by its king ashoka, fought a prolonged war against kalinga. the war ended around 262 bce with the victory of the maurya empire. it is believed that ashoka, after having witnessed the loss of many lives during this war, felt deep responsibility and eventually converted into buddhism.