You have been assigned to compose an essay in which you discuss how "freedom of speech" came to be valued by America's founders.

Which choice would make an appropriate topic sentence for a paragraph in this essay?

a)Today, many countries in the world still punish citizens who speak out against the government.

b)Some say that freedom of speech shouldn't be absolute but should be balanced against other concerns.

c)Freedom of speech is stipulated in the First Amendment, while the Second Amendment discusses the right to bear arms.

d)John Locke, a philosopher who influenced many of the American Founders, propounded an inherent right to life, liberty, and property.

Which part of this excerpt from john keats' poem "endymion" contains a simile? therefore, 'tis with full happiness that i will trace the story of endymion. the very music of the name has gone into my being, and each pleasant scene is growing fresh before me as the green of our own vallies: so i will begin now while i cannot hear the city's din; now while the early budders are just new, and run in mazes of the youngest hue about old forests; while the willow trails its delicate amber; and the dairy pails bring home increase of milk. and, as the year grows lush in juicy stalks, i'll smoothly steer my little boat, for many quiet hours, with streams that deepen freshly into bowers.