after 100,000 miles, on the longest carrier deployment in recent history — you are homeward bound. Some of you will see new family members for the first time — 150 babies were born while their fathers were on the Lincoln. Your families are proud of you, and your nation will welcome you.
The correct answer is A. Al-Qaida is wounded, not destroyed
Explanation:
The excerpt presented belongs to a speech delivered by Presiden George W. Bush about the Iraq War that began in 2003 and was a response to the incidents that occur in September 11 in the U.S. In this speech Bush aims at explaining the audience although the war has not ended and the U.S. has not won, there is hope the American troops will succeed.
This includes phrases such as "Our mission continues. Al-Qaida is wounded, not destroyed" or "The war on terror is not over" that show the war is being successful but still needs to continue and phrases such as "Free nations will press on to victory" that show there is hope the war would end. Considering this, one of the lines that suggest the war effort had successes ut is not quite complete is "Al-Qaida is wounded, not destroyed" because this proves the efforts of the U.S. troops diminished terrorism but this effort needs to continue to end with it.
Explanation: Most mythologies, in fact all that I can think of, include gods that are basically humans with super powers. Sure some (like Ancient Egypt) have animal headed gods and some have animal forms (like Anansi of the Akan mythos), but they all basically act like humans only they can control the weather, harvests, tides, etc…
If Helena types 52 words in one minute, then she will double that in two minutes, typing 104 words. If she types for four minutes, she types for two minutes, and then another two minutes, which can be written as 104+104, and 104+104=208. Therefore, Helena types 208 words in four minutes.