This quote- from the novel "red scarf girl"- explains what cultural concept?
a) communism is the best system in the world and should not be questioned.
b) chinese had a deep respect for their political leaders and saw them as a father figure.
c) parents in china were legally only allowed to have one child because chairman mao made that rule.
d) parents should be strictly obeyed and and children would bring shame on their family if they did not.

This refers to weather and atmospheric conditions measured over a long period of time.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Because they are located downstream from turkey on the tigris and euphrates rivers, these two nations are anticipating a reduction in water supply, as a result of 22 dams being built by the southeastern anatolia project. the two nations are a) iraq and iran. b) iraq and syria. c) iran and syria. d) saudi arabia and yemen.