Katherine was extremely nervous about her first day at a new school. for kindergarten through second grade, katherine had attended a small private school in her home state of mississippi. now she was about to walk in the front door of a large public school in new york city. other children raced past her clearly knowing where to go and how to behave "normally." katherine looked around to see if there was a friendly teacher face in the hall to ask where to go, but there wasn't a single one to be seen. which sentence would work best as a concluding sentence to this paragraph? a) katherine did not feel like today was going to go well at all. b) katherine should have just ignored her fears and stepped into school bravely. c) going to the first day of school in a new town and a new building can be quite scary. d) regardless of not seeing any teacher's faces, katherine just knew today was going to be perfect.

It is much safer to be feared than loved. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty . . but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. . that it is true his other virtues would not have been sufficient for him may be proved by the case of scipio, that most excellent man . . his army rebelled in spain; this arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli machiavelli claims that “it is much safer to be feared than loved.” which type of evidence does machiavelli use to support his claim? answer : logical how does the author’s use of this evidence create meaning for the reader? answer : by using a historical event to prove the claim