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Answer: Lewis overall purpose in this speech is to illustrate that success can be attributed to luck and it's not always about hardwork or commitment.
Explanation:
Michael Lewis, was the author of Liar's Poker, The Big Short and Boomerang and he gave a speech on the role that luck plays in our lives in 2012 during the graduation ceremony at Princeton University.
According to him, people are successful in the world due to the luck they encounter along the way. From the beginning of the speech, he spoke about how he was invited to a dinner, and sat beside the wife of a top person at an investment bank, that was refered to as Salomon Brothers and that the woman made her husband give him a job and through the job, made a good pay.
He further stated that successful people don't like hearing the fact that success comes with luck but he said accident played an important role in their lives. At the end of the speech, he gave his closing remarks by congratulating the graduands as the lucky few and told them to make a positive impact in the world.
Answer:
C. The chairman told me that the legislature passed the bill.
Explanation:
The name of voice is given to the form assumed by the verb to indicate if the grammatical subject is agent or patient of the action that the verb is referring to. In this way, active voice occurs when the subject is an agent, that is, when the subject practices the action expressed by the verb.
In case of alternative C, in the sentence "The chairman told me that the legislature passed the bill." The subject of the phrase "the chairman" is the agent of the action shown by the verb "told".
That is, who is telling me that the legislature approved the bill? The chairman!
