Answer: Don't make an excuse.
Explanation: Don't lie to your teacher and tell her "your dog ate your homework" and don't say "Your having trouble at home". Tell your teacher the truth, even if the truth is that you were lazy. Just be honest with your teacher and tell him/her that you didn't do it. Do not lie, because Karma can and most definitely will come back to you. We all the know the saying... Karma's a ….. well you get it so, DO NOT LIE. And besides, You never know what your teacher's reaction will be. Who knows maybe he/she will give you extra time to do it or turn it in.
That the world was no longer at peace, we were at war, and the world cried.
Answer:
Excerpt from Voltaire's Candide
Theme: Different people find value in different things.
The theme above is best developed by the request of Earth made by Candide and Cacambo. The king regards this "Earth" as "yellow clay."
Explanation:
It can be inferred from the excerpt that the European visitors know the value of "the earth of the country", which is for them like a productive mother that gives birth to innumerable children. But for the king and his countrymen, the earth was just mere "yellow clay," sterile and without value.
What one undervalues, another values immensely because there is a gap in their knowledge. Abundance of some resources fools those who dwell on top of the resources. Whereas for those who understand the rarity of the resources, they experience scarcity of it because the demand for the resources would outstrip the supply. This is paradoxical.