In a leap of faith, why does sam consider it a leap of faith to do the diving board from the platform?

He had to leap and do a very difficult dive from a high up diving board and when his cousin was shouting at him a flashback came back to him. He leaped off and he hit the water and he came up and he wiped the water from his eyes and he turned to see his cousin giving a thumbs up sign to the coach and he knew he had made the team. He felt very proud and he knew that jump was a leap of faith because he had finally jumped from the high dive and made the diving team.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

"fire and ice" is one of robert frost's most popular poems. it was published in december 1920 in harper's magazine and in 1923 in his pulitzer prize−winning book new hampshire. it discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate.

c. the power of desire is greater than the power of hate.