Read the excerpt from a student’s essay.

As Rainsford leans over the ship’s rail, his pipe slips from his hands. Acting on impulse, he reaches for the falling object, loses his balance, and falls into the dark water below. After this, Rainsford struggles to stay afloat and swim to the island in the distance. It is a difficult task, but after much effort, he lands on the shores. Rainsford collapses and falls into a deep sleep.

Which revision would best help expand the ideas in the excerpt?

A. adding a comment noting that Rainsford really should have let the pipe fall into the water
B. adding the fact that Rainsford hears a number of pistol shots as he swims through the dark water
C. adding more information about Rainsford’s past as a soldier and a hunter of wild animals
D. adding more details about the struggle Rainsford experiences as he swims to the shore

How does the narrator describe her parents treatment of nnamabia following his various crimes and wrongdoings

Why should college athletes should not get paid conclusion a. state the name in a new way: b. remind the audience why the issue matters

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion