Excerpt from momotaro, or "little peachling"
japanese folktale

after this akandoji the chief of the devils said he would surrender all his riches. "out with your riches then; " said momotaro laughing. having collected and ranged in order a great pile of precious things, momotaro took them, and set out for his home, rejoicing, as he marched bravely back, that, with the of his three companions, to whom he attributed all his success, he had been able so easily to accomplish his end.

great was the joy of the old man and the old woman when momotaro came back. he feasted every body bountifully, told many stories of his adventure, displayed his riches, and at last became a leading man, a man of influence, very rich and honorable; a man to be very much congratulated indeed!

q:
a:
what effect is accomplished by ending the story with this paragraph?
a) it makes the reader wonder what will happen next.
b) it leaves the impression of an unambiguously happy ending.
c) it suggests that the hero might soon have a new quest to undertake.
d) it implies that, despite the happy ending, not everything has been resolved.

Essay on kashmir is heaven on earth

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

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