EZ QUESTION Read the scenario and answer the question that follows. Matt does not like the way other members of his group have been acting lately. They are making bad choices in his opinion, so he calls several of them over to talk. He sits them down as he stands bent over them and begins to explain why he is upset with them. As he yells at each one, he points his finger at them. What action should Matt take in order to communicate more effectively?
Ask each friend to explain himself, the choices he has made, why they were bad choices, and what can be done in the future to not make the same choices.
Explain the choices he has observed each friend make, discuss his thoughts and feelings about the choices, and ask that they agree on better choices to make.
Say he is sorry for yelling, explain that it had to be done, explain why he does not like the choices the friends are making, and make them say they are sorry.
Tell his friends what he thinks better choices would be for them to make, say he is sorry for all the finger pointing, and shake hands before walking away.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.