Read the passage: this was the world of the ancient greeks. there, on a sunny peninsula in southern europe, surrounded by the clear blue waters of the mediterranean sea, ideas and principles were forged that still shape our modern world. the greeks loved learning, reason, and freedom of thought. greek ideas of citizenship and democracy remain some of our most cherished values. ancient greek art and literature are still studied and enjoyed today. what is the main idea? a. the location of greece b. the types of things the greeks were interested in c. how the world of ancient greece has shaped our own world d. that studying of ancient greece is interesting will mark brainliest if your right. i need imedently. im being timed.

Which organizational method does your reading material suggest is particularlyuseful when writing about a place? of importancecause → effect

Boss: oh no! that’s the phone again! secretary: blank boss: . a. shall i take it? b. will you answer it? c. can you do me a favor? d. may i hang it up?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant