Main ideas the civil service was created partly to ensure that federal employees
a. may run in partisan political elections.
b. are promoted based on loyalty to a political party.
c. are allowed full participation in party activities.
d. are promoted based on merit.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and i live on, but in grief and self-contempt, left here without the light i loved so much, in a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. no more love songs, then, i have done with such; my old skill now runs thin at each attempt, and tears are heard within the harp i touch. (lines 9-14) which of the lines, taken from the sestet shown above, is the volta?

Which of the following european countries settled the first colonies in america

What is the most celebrated piece of japanese literature and who was its author? why is it important in the literary world? (around 1000 ad by a woman)