In a short story, a young boy plays in the same meadow many times during his childhood. he and his friends feel that the meadow is a magical place where they can use their imaginations. the young boy eventually goes away to college and returns, only to discover that the meadow no longer exists and in its place is a new housing development. he watches the scene with sadness. what are two common literary themes that this story most clearly shows?

a: the determination to succeed and the acceptance of failure.
b: the loss of joy and the regaining of joy.
c: the death of nature and the power of civilization
d: the passage of time and the ritual of the seasons.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.