Which statement about the presidential election of 2008 is correct? a) it was the last time a republican nominee won an election. b) it resulted in the election of the first african-american president. 9 d)vote. it was the first time a woman had been nominated for vice president. it was won by a candidate who did not receive a majority of the popular

B

In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, the first African American to ever do so.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.