Ilike my cousins, but when we go to the mall together, they drive me crazy. debra stops and looks at herself in every mirror to comb her hair and adjust her makeup. deidra takes way too long trying on outfits but is too picky to actually buy one. dalia spends the whole time making fun of other people's clothing choices. none of them will even eat at the food court because they don't want to mess up what they're wearing. it's strange that we are from the same family, but act so differently. what is the implicit idea in this paragraph? my cousins all have names that start with the letter d. my cousins care too much about appearances. my cousins do not like to go to the mall. my cousins drive me crazy.

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

How does lennie's puppy die in of mice and men?

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion