The narrator handles the rejection letter by picking up more volunteer hours at the hospital.

Which statement is the best reason for including this information in the narrative?

It gives him time to think, reflect, and determine a new plan.

It provides a distraction and helps him uncover a passion for helping people.

It puts him on a path to meet his future wife and have a career in medicine.

It keeps him busy and helps him see everything happens for a reason.

Discuss how social status may align with historical criticism.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed