Select the correct answer. Read this excerpt from Robert Stawell Ball’s Great Astronomers:

Though every child may now know more of the actual truths of the celestial motions than ever Ptolemy knew, yet the fact that his work exercised such an astonishing effect on the human intellect for some sixty generations, shows that it must have been an extraordinary production. We must look into the career of this wonderful man to discover wherein lay the secret of that marvellous success which made him the unchallenged instructor of the human race for such a protracted period.

Based on the context of the excerpt, what does the word protracted most clearly mean?

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the answer is luis.

  someone can be considered a dynamic person by being energitic and forceful, but other aspects of being dynamic is having a lot of ideas and enthusiasm. luis his little brother with his homework, and later he teaches his younger brother how to ride a bike without training wheels, which takes a lot of patience, dedication and involvement.

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which detail from "home place retold" supports the central idea that despite physical changes, watonwan is a special place for generations of people?

great great-grandchildren retell the story of early days. .

young families worked hard to build a life.

those matches might seem surprising in modern times.

in 1881, more than 50 such families fled religious persecution. .