NEED HELP Part A
In the following passage from Life on the Mississippi, what is the most important reason the young Twain wants these two jobs on a steamboat?

I first wanted to be a cabin boy, so that I could come out with a white apron on and shake a tablecloth over the side, where all my old comrades could see me; later I thought I would rather be the deckhand who stood on the end of the stage plank with the coil of rope in his hand, because he was particularly conspicuous.

A. He feels that they are the easiest jobs of all.
B. He knows that they are open to young boys.
C. He thinks that they are visible to people on shore.
D. He does not really understand what such workers do.
Part B
Which pair of phrases from the passage best supports the answer to Part A?

A. shake a tablecloth over the side … stood on the end of the stage plank
B. my old comrades could see me … he was particularly conspicuous
C. come out with a white apron … with the coil of rope in his hand
D. come out with a white apron … my old comrades could see me

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