If you were writing an essay arguing that students should be required to do landscape and clean-up work at school as part of their required courses, which reason would not support that argument?
a) students who clean up campus learn to value taking good care of the earth.
b) giving students small manual labor tasks teaches students a good work ethic.
c) having a beautiful school campus would make everyone feel so happy and proud.
d) having students work on the gardens at school instills a sense of ownership and school pride.

It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range recovery, that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform. on the other hand, even wise and necessary reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate recovery. what is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt? a) it provides a counter-argument to the writer's main ideas. b) it provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder. c) it provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument. d) it provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's argument.