Part a: what is a major theme of “harrison bergeron”? (a) it is impossible to make people totally identical in every way. (b) unintelligent people inevitably become bad parents. (c) television is bad for society because it shows violence. (d) evil people gravitate to powerful positions in the government. part b: which evidence from the text best supports the answer in part a? (a) the violence occurs live on tv when “diana moon came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun….” (b) diana moon glampers kills harrison: “she fired twice, and the emperor and the empress were dead….” (c) the heaviest of handicaps cannot mask harrison's superiority: he “had outgrown hindrances faster than the h-g men could think them up.” (d) after the government takes harrison away, vonnegut writes that although it was sad, "hazel couldn’t think about it very hard.”

Part A: A) It is impossible to make people totally identical in every way. Part B: C) The heaviest of handicaps cannot mask Harrison's superiority: he “had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up.”

Explanation: "Harrison Bergeron" is a short story about a future where equality is taken to another level, by law, all people should be as equal as possible, this means that if you are better than someone else at something, you will be forced to use "handicaps" to make you equal to everyone else. But this develops the theme that it is impossible to make people totally identical in every way this is support by the fact that the heaviest of handicaps cannot mask Harrison's superiority.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war