Which of the following is an example of indirect characterization? the firefighter refused to leave the child, who was clinging to his sleeve, alone in the wreckage despite shouts from the crowd that the gasoline was leaking. the child was only 7, small for his age, but very verbal and sociable. he talked to strangers readily, a habit which frightened his parents. the mother was distracted by the cell phone, the daily chores, her 7 year old chattering in the back seat; she was entirely unprepared to encounter a drunk driver. rescue efforts had been successful: the brave fireman had rushed into the accident area to pull the hysterical woman out of the space where the front windshield once was.

What would happend if organ systems failed to work together

[he] let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath his feet. a piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. how slowly it appeared to move! what a sluggish stream! what contrasting words are used to describe the stream in this passage?

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion