Read these excerpts from We Beat the Street.
"Then the three of you get out of here. Colleges come to this school every day, looking for good students and you three
jokers let it all pass you by."
"You'll be four years older whether you go to college or not. Why not fill up those four years with something valuable?"
George thought back to Miss Johnson, who had said almost the exact same thing to him way back in third grade.
What central idea in the story do the details in these excerpts best support?
Teachers usually know what goals their students want to achieve.
Having fun can prevent people from achieving their dreams.
People should make the most of the opportunities that are given to them.
Young people who want to succeed need to take the advice of others.

It warportant fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions b. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect e it shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft.a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman.a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes.a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit.a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.

Americans were concerned about being drawn into another war in europe. how well did president roosevelt address conflicting evidence and viewpoints? use textual evidence from the speech to support your ideas.