Answer the following questions using the article below:
what is the purpose of the argument?
what is the point of view of the argument? who is the intended audience?
what is kennedy's claim?
what evidence is provided to support the claim?
is a counterclaim presented? if so, how is it refuted or weakened?
how convincing is the argument presented by kennedy? use details from the reading to support your opinion.

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians

This series of works has captured the imaginations of people all over the world. a. incarcerated c. jailed b. seized d. arrested