… (1) Everyone had hot chocolate to keep off the late October chill. (2) Jamie had drunk his hot chocolate quickly, so now when he put aside his video game to look in his travel mug, all he found in it was wishful thinking. (3) He zipped up his sweatshirt and pulled the hood over his ears.

(4) Melissa spoke softly to Ricky, “That very bright star is called Rigel, that one on the other side of the belt is Bellatrix, and the bright one to the left is Betelgeuse.”

(5) Jamie looked up at the sky to see these bright stars Melissa was naming—just for a second; he had not changed his mind that this was completely boring. (6) A chorus of “Ohs” and a “Did you see that?” erupted from his family.

Select the sentence from the excerpt above which best shows that Jamie is more interested in the stars that he appears.

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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

In at least 150 words, discuss the comparison described in the figurative language and how the connotative language reinforces the symbol. certainly the utmost rim of my first dome was filled with the tumultuous impression of soldiers marching to death for freedom's sake, of pioneers streaming westward to establish self-government in yet another sovereign state. only the great dome of st. peter's itself has ever clutched my heart as did that modest curve which had sequestered from infinitude in a place small enough for my child's mind, the courage and endurance which i could not comprehend so long as it was lost in "the void of unresponsible space" under the vaulting sky itself.