The answer would be the local school board
" If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country."
"You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in
science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop
new energy technologies and protect our environment"
all I got.
Giving time, spending quality days with them, sharing talks are the best gift one can give to their parents.
This is a little bit tricky to justify without context, but I would say that this is an example of characterization. Through this sentence, the reader isn’t directly being told something about the character or her personality, but her sleeping with the letter under her cheek can help the reader make inferences about how, for instance, she treats things that are important to her.
