Both passages use chronological order and passage 1 mainly presents facts, while passage 2 uses more description are the two statements that best describe the text structures of both passages.
You can see how both texts have a chronological order because both have dates or mention times in the people's lives which are mentioned following the order in which they occurred. In the first text, for example, there are many time references like "when he was four years old...", "at the age of seven..." and "at the age of 15..." which follow a chronological order. In the second passage, phrases like "November 6, 1854", "at the age of 13'...', "by 1880..." exemplify how chronollogical order is followed.
In the first passage there are many more facts mentioned. For example, the time Duke Ellington was born, when he started listening to music, when he started playing the piano, when he started working at a soda fountain, his salary after his first gig, when he formed a band, etc. In the second passage, on the other hand, more descriptions are used. For example, it describes Sousa as a "determined, industrious and optimistic" boy. It then describes how famous he was by 1880 and then mentions several personality traits to describe him as talented, tolerant and approachable.
C) A great leader had great self-control and makes sound decisions.
<em>In The Odysseys by Homer</em>, Odyssey when on cyclopes island proclaim his identity which is an example of pride and hubris. Odyssey decides to control his actions with the Polyphemus, despite the appeals made by his crew to depart from the island quickly. As a result due to his pride and arrogance, his men have to suffer. His pride and arrogance go against the Greek values when he yells back at Polyphemus, calling himself <em>"raider of the cities" </em>and that he is from Ithaca to commend himself. Such pride leads him to his downfall as hubris was a sin as believed by the Greek. They believed that the humans were below them in a hierarchy and showing hubris was an act of equalizing themselves with the god.
