TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Her career started more than 20 years ago in a garage behind a Catholic Worker soup kitchen on skid row in Los Angeles.
Sent 2: She lived on a $3-a-week stipend that she spent on pantyhose and bus fare.
Sent 3: Her law practice grew to an organization that brought in millions of dollars of damages through its cases against L.A. slumlords, allowing poor families to set up college funds and buy homes.
Sent 4: In all those years, she never lost a case.
Sent 5: When she stepped down, she had time to notice what was happening to the field of poverty law.
Sent 6: "I realized with a shock that the work had really disintegrated and we had lost a whole generation of public-interest lawyers," she said.
Sent 7: "It had gone from being an economic sacrifice as it was in my day to an economic impossibility.
Sent 8: ... The whole system has essentially collapsed."Sent 9: Mintie also started to ask questions about the medical field.
Sent 10: Almost every person who walks into a free medical clinic, she said, faces some legal problem such as an eviction or the loss of Social Security benefits.
Sent 11: And many of her clients had medical problems from living in slum housing such as cockroaches lodged in ear canals and rat bite fever, a nonfatal malady that particularly affects children.
Sent 12: Mintie noticed that health-care professionals were graduating with staggering debts and also couldn't afford to work with the poor.
Sent 13: Her work was noticed by Oprah Winfrey, who invited her on the TV show March 26, 2001.
Sent 14: Mintie received a $100,000 "Use Your Life Award" from Oprah's Angel Network, a nonprofit organization that awards money to those who help others.
Sent 15: Mintie said that all of the money has gone to her recipients -- none was spent on overhead.
Sent 16: She will be out of funds by spring.
Sent 17: She is trying to get religious organizations to sponsor recipients.
Sent 18: It is a secular organization, but one that grew out of Mintie's religious convictions.
Question: Who is she asking to help fund her nonprofit organization?.

SOLUTION: Religious organizations.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right.
Question: What happens with growth rate in some plants when days grow shorter?.

SOLUTION: In some plants, the growth rate will slow or stop.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: As Philip marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia.
Sent 2: During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander the left, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals.
Sent 3: According to the ancient sources, the two sides fought bitterly for some time.
Sent 4: Philip deliberately commanded his troops to retreat, counting on the untested Athenian hoplites to follow, thus breaking their line.
Sent 5: Alexander was the first to break the Theban lines, followed by Philip's generals.
Sent 6: Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them.
Sent 7: With the Athenians lost, the Thebans were surrounded.
Sent 8: Left to fight alone, they were defeated.
Sent 9: After the victory at Chaeronea, Philip and Alexander marched unopposed into the Peloponnese, welcomed by all cities; however, when they reached Sparta, they were refused, but did not resort to war.
Sent 10: At Corinth, Philip established a "Hellenic Alliance" (modeled on the old anti-Persian alliance of the Greco-Persian Wars), which included most Greek city-states except Sparta.
Sent 11: Philip was then named Hegemon (often translated as "Supreme Commander") of this league (known by modern scholars as the League of Corinth), and announced his plans to attack the Persian Empire.
Question: Who was left alone to fight and subsequently defeated?.

SOLUTION:
The Thebans.