The another term that means 'STRESS' in word is accent
The second one, because a mandate is an official order.
I believe that the book would be trying to teach others about perseverance and to keep going no matter what.
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I had a rough sophomore year but they helped me with my grades and brought them back up and this year( junior year) has been perfect but for both years there wasn't a lot of fun activities our school is too underfunded and most money we get goes to the middle school last year we had a Halloween dance, prom,and we had dominion of terror that's all we had for activities this year we have no Halloween dance, No dominion of terror and most likely from what I've heard... no prom but I see all these other Sheboygan area schools having dances football games and all this other stuff but we can't even get a single dance, I understand that we are in school for education but we are also here for a great high school experience before have to be pushed into the adult world and never have anything like this again but overall there teachers and education system is great but we are really underfunded and don't get a full high school experience.
D, the last answer, seems the most plausible.
