Brainstorm and prewrite three scenes about a fictional talent show in which two contestants swap
bodies. Your first two scenes will focus on the contestants, each of which must try to learn the other
person's act before the show begins. The third scene will focus on an audience member who's watching
the talent show.
Each scene must make its main character distinct from the other two. Each scene must also use rich
description so that the problem each character faces seems real, even though the story itself is
fantastical. In the next lesson, you'll expand these scenes into a short story.
Your assignment should include the following elements:
• A scene told from the point of view of a contestant in a talent show who has unexpectedly swapped
bodies with a stranger and must therefore perform that stranger's talent act
• Another scene told from the perspective of the stranger with whom the first character swapped
bodies; this person now faces the same problem of having to perform another person's talent act
• A third scene told from the point of view of an audience member who watches the talent show
You should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. If you haven't done
So, go back and complete that activity now.

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Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?

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