Read the excerpt below and answer the question. he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation; for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil. what is machiavelli’s advice to a leader who is confronted with doing the virtuous thing or the thing that best assures survival? to choose the course that will ensure survival to choose to do what is best for the people to choose the virtuous course to choose destruction rather than violate a moral code

Which literary approach focuses primarily on the dynamics of power in a text?

Read the following passage: sari couldn't believe her bad luck. she had locked her keys in the car. to add fuel to the fire, her cell phone was in the locked car, and she was late for a very important meeting. she knocked on her neighbor's door so that she could ask to use his phone, but he was not not home. what was she to do? what role does the idiom in the passage serve? a. it shows that sari has incredibly bad luck when it comes to work.b. it shows that sari's neighbor was not home either.c. it shows that sari locked her keys in the car.d. it shows that sari's situation was worse than it seemed at first.

According to stephen hawking in the "origin of the universe" lecture, "why are we here" and "where did we come from" are questions that