Travis wanted more than anything to get a new computer. When he got one, he would finally be able to use software to compose music. All summer, he worked hard at his part-time job and saved money. In fact, he did nothing but work all the time. Finally, he had enough money and bought the computer. But when he tried to use software, he realized that he knew next to nothing about music composition. He decided to take some free classes at school, while the computer sat unused for another year. Which statement best expresses a theme of this story?

A. Some people don't know where their real talents lie.
B. Focusing on nothing but work can make a person unhappy.
C. Working hard is more important than having fun hobbies.
D. To reach a goal, a sensible plan is as important as hard work.

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Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.