Which statement best summarizes the central theme of the text? Doubt is a powerful feeling; it can kill confidence and ruin performance.
Pride can sometimes get in the way of relationships with friends and family.
Hard work and pride in one's work are more important than outward success.
Sometimes it is necessary to sacrifice relationships and health to achieve goals.

Janes father receives a severe punishment at the end of the text. was this punishment fair? did he deserve this punishment? why it why not? should mr brushed have him? use the text to support your argument.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

The essay sea stars by barbara hurd. what point is the author making by comparing a sea star missing an arm to a human losing a limb?