Read the excerpt from "John Burns: The Unlikely Civil War Hero.” "I am going out to see what’s going on,” Burns said to his wife. Then he left the safety of his home while most of the town’s citizens hid in their cellars.
Which statement about heroism is supported by this excerpt?

A. Heroes sometimes move toward danger, not away from it.
B. People are only heroic when they act alone.
C. People are heroic when they leave loved ones.
D. Heroes are determined to stand up for their beliefs.

What is one thing that happened to benno harte when he and his family left france to escape the nazis?

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

He picture shows a fishing technique called trawling. how might trawling affect marine biodiversity? decrease biodiversity by harvesting everything in its path, so that unwanted fish are unnecessarily killed