Hope knew how desperate hayley was to make it on the baseball team. hope had seen hayley's grandparents cheering at the game last year. they just looked so happy. the baseball team was the only thing that was going well in hayley's life. yet, hope knew that she was a better player than hayley. after baseball camp, there was really no competition. what was hope to do? here she was at tryouts, and it was too late to drop out. there was one more spot on the team. she believed strongly that she should always do her best, but she didn't want to break hayley's heart. which statement describes the main plot of the scenario above best? hope has an external conflict due to competition with hayley. hope has an internal conflict due to a moral dilemma. hope has an internal conflict due to her negative feelings toward hayley. hope has an external conflict due to her missing baseball camp.

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next