This decision represented the consensus of the science committee for the rose center's design and construction, of which i served as head. while the accountability and originality of our pedagogical approach to the subject lies equally among us on the committee, as director of the hayden planetarium i became the most visible exponent of this decision when, a full year after the rose center opened to the public, the new york times broke a page-1 news story that we had demoted pluto from its ranks of planethood. i was henceforth branded a public enemy of pluto lovers the world over. neil degrasse tyson, the pluto files what is the main idea of this paragraph? a. dr. tyson is the director of the hayden planetarium and has been involved with the exhibits at the rose center for many years. b. the science committee is usually responsible for most of the scientific exhibits that are displayed in the rose center. c. even though the decision about pluto was made by a lot of people, dr. tyson received the most negative attention for it. d. the rose center was designed specifically to house exhibits that focused on astronomy or models of the solar system.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.