CLOSE CALLS IN U. S. ELECTION HISTORY commonlit: Part A: Which TWO of the following best identifies the central ideas of this text?

A. Voting in the united states is usually controversial
B. The popular vote is different from the electoral college vote
C. Democrats usually use the electoral college to win unfairly against republicans
D. Presidential races usually have obvious winners, but sometimes they are very close.
E. When a presidential race comes close, controversy often emerges
F. If a presidential race comes close, it is conventional for the two sides to strike a deal

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

What is the purpose of the scene in leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich in which ivan ilyich thinks about the following logical argument, known as a syllogism?

When a text is organized according to what happened first in the story in time order, this is known as what kind of structure?