Atortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. an eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. “i will give you,” she said, “all the riches of the red sea.” “i will teach you to fly then,” said the eagle. taking her up in his talons, he carried her almost to the clouds; suddenly, he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. the tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “i have deserved my pres

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. I'm not 100% sure, but in Plato this should be the correct answer.

either a or b

explanation:

if you're researching a person or writing about them, your best bet would be a. if you were researching about computing, b would be your answer. my proffered answer is b, considering people mostly research about objects or things rather than people for projects.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.