Read the passage from the kennedy-nixon debates. nixon: where, then, do we disagree? i think we disagree on the implication of his remarks tonight and on the statements that he has made on many occasions during his campaign to the effect that the united states has been standing still. we heard tonight, for example, the statement made that our growth in national product last year was the lowest of any industrial nation in the world. now last year, of course, was 1958. that happened to be a recession year. but when we look at the growth of g. n.p. this year, a year of recovery, we find that it's six and nine-tenths per cent and one of the highest in the world today. more about that later. kennedy: this is a great country, but i think it could be a greater country; and this is a powerful country, but i think it could be a more powerful country. i'm not satisfied to have fifty percent of our steel-mill capacity unused. i'm not satisfied when the united states had last year the lowest rate of economic growth of any major industrialized society in the world. because economic growth means strength and vitality; it means we're able to sustain our defenses; it means we're able to meet our commitments abroad. on what point do kennedy and nixon disagree?

Read the excerpt. while i am i, and you are you, so long as the world contains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes, must the other pursue. what do these lines, from “life in a love” by robert browning, convey about the speaker’s pursuit of his beloved? eventually, they will switch roles, and she will chase him. he will try to win her love for as long as they are both alive. if they lived in a different time and place, he would not love her. they are meant for each other, and he is certain that they will be together.

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.

Which adjective best describes the narrators father according to the narrator