Read the excerpt from "I'm Not Thirteen Yet" by Amy
Berstein
This excerpt describes the writer's significant experience of
After the game, we had an ice cream party in the dining
hall to celebrate our victory. I sprinkled my last spoonful of
chocolate sprinkles and walked toward a table.
o overcoming her extreme shyness
Obecoming friends with Margaret
O learning to eat without making a mess
O learning to behave like a teenager.
"Hey Jamie," a voice called, "come sit here."
I swore it sounded like Margaret. It turned out it was
Margaret, and she wanted me to sit next to her
"Ok... thanks," I said and took a seat, probably with a
confused look on my face. "I love the way you arrange your
toppings, in perfect order from ice cream to fudge and
chocolate sprinkles. You're a great sundae builder," said
Margaret "Look at mine. I can't even keep it together."
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Select the correct answerwhat theme is portrayed in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? in reality it was just what is usually seen in the houses of people of moderate means who want to appear rich, and therefore succeed only inresembling others like themselves, there are damasks dark wood, plants, rugs, and dull and polished bronzes-all the things people of a certaiclass have in order to resemble other people of that class. his house was so like the others that it would never have been noticed, but to him it aseemed to be quite exceptional. he was very happy when he met his family at the station and brought them to the newly furnished house all lit uwhere a tootman in a white tie opened the door into the hall decorated with plants, and when they went on into the drawing-room and the studyuttering exclamations of delight he conducted them everywhere, drank in their praises eagerly, and beamed with pleasure.a.the effect of consumerismbw the power of wealthcam keeping up appearances in societyud. wconforming to societal conventionsresetnextil rights reserved.

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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