Read this excerpt from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. A Modern Pandemic During the past 25 years, AIDS has spread throughout the world. The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981. Since then, the disease has become a pandemic. Now there are nearly 40 million people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Africa is the hardest-hit continent. More than 60 percent of all the people in the world with HIV live there. But no region has been spared. Why does the author conclude the article with this passage?
a. to contrast current events with past events
b. to place a spotlight on the African continent
c. to place emphasis on what is happening now
d. to compare AIDS to diseases mentioned earlier

Which excerpt from the awakening best highlights the elation edna feels when she thinks of robert? the morning was full of sunlight and hope. edna could see before her no denial—only the promise of excessive joy. she lay in bed awake, with bright eyes full of speculation. “he loves you, poor fool.” he would come to her in the afternoon or evening, sit and roll his cigarette, talk a little, and go away as he had done the night before. but how delicious it would be to have him there with her! robert did not come that day. she was keenly disappointed. he did not come the following day, nor the next. each morning she awoke with hope, and each night she was a prey to despondency. his horses were full of mettle, and even a little unmanageable. she liked the rapid gait at which they spun along, and the quick, sharp sound of the horses' hoofs on the hard road.

What is one way that shakespeare uses source material in othello? to establish lago's jealous natureto describe why lago loves the moor's wifeto illustrate lago's skill on a battlefieldto explain how lago became so close to the moon

Which statement best paraphrases these sentences from the text