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.

We would like to work at the soup kitchen underline startsmore frequentlyunderline ends next year. which best identifies the degree of comparison of the underlined adjective or adverb?

Select the correct answer. in this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by johnathan swift, what does the author list? i can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom. this i freely own, and 'twas indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. i desire the reader will observe, that i calculate my remedy for this one individual kingdom of ireland, and for no other that ever was, is, or, i think, ever can be upon earth. therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: of using neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: of learning to love our country, wherein we differ even from laplanders, and the inhabitants of topinamboo: of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken: of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.a. reforms that had failed to improve ireland's situation b. the unrealistic measures discussed by irish government officials c. viable measures that could improve ireland's situation d. measures that would unify the populace of ireland

What are the central ideas in anne bradstreets as weary pilgrim, now at rest