Read the passage from “i know why the caged bird sings.” mrs. bertha flowers was the aristocrat of black stamps. she had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the arkansas summer days it seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around, cooling her. she was thin without the taut look of wiry people, and her printed voile dresses and flowered hats were as right for her as denim overalls for a farmer. she was our side's answer to the richest white woman in town. the author’s purpose in including this passage is to explain to the reader the way people dressed in black stamps. instruct the reader on the local customs in black stamps. inform the reader of mrs. flowers’s social position in black stamps. teach the reader how mrs. flowers’s fashion affected black stamps.

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.