Read this excerpt from Emily’s essay about volunteering: Everyone should find a way to volunteer. Volunteering helps reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation. It can help boost people’s self-confidence when they see they can make a difference in others’ lives. But to those who say many people just don’t have the time to volunteer, I say that volunteering doesn’t have to be a big time commitment. Most organizations are grateful for as little as an hour a month of a person’s time. Some even have “volunteer at home” options for added convenience. Which analysis of the author’s response to conflicting viewpoint is correct? A. The author fails to acknowledge any opposing viewpoints. B. The author acknowledges an opposing viewpoint but does not argue against it. C. The author refutes an opposing viewpoint but does not provide any supporting evidence in her argument. D. The author refutes an opposing viewpoint and provides sufficient supporting evidence in her argument.

D

Explanation:

The author oppose those that believe many people just don't have time to volunteer with analysis like volunteering helps reduce loneliness, volunteering help people build self-confidence when they see they can make difference in others lives. Etc

D. The author refutes an opposing viewpoint and provides sufficient supporting evidence in her argument.

Explanation:

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as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.