So I am in middle school rn and I want to get a scholarship to USC, I have straight As and I play baseball, my plan is that I get a scholarship and go to USC I want to attempt to be the first female to play in the MLB, if that does not work out I want to be a journalist for the L. A. Dodgers where I interview the players and travel with them and write articles do you think the me trying to make it to MLB and playing for the MLB is possible?

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.