The steps to memory can best be described as .

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Which of the following statements about the shang dynasty’s system of writing is false? a. no evidence of the writing system has survived. b. the shang often wrote on bamboo parchment. c. the writing system had over 3,000 characters. d. the writing system developed from a system of pictographs.

Mrs. woods would like to see speed bumps installed along a road that passes through a retirement community. who should she talk to in order to have the problem addressed quickly? a) the town council b) the police chief c) her united states senator d) her congressional representative