Read this excerpt from Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:
"You been crying?" he said to Hazel.
"Yup," she said.
"What about?" he said.
"I forget,' she said. "Something real sad on television."
"What was it?" he said.
"It's all kind of mixed up in my mind," said Hazel.
Which statement best describes the intended aesthetic impact of this
excerpt?
O A. By showing Hazel crying, the author reveals that she is able to
express feelings, leaving the reader heartened.
O B. By George's recognition that Hazel has been crying, the author
shows that he is no longer handicapped.
C. By Hazel's failure to remember seeing her son die on TV, the
author reveals his compassion for her character.
O D. By Hazel's forgetting why she had been crying, the author leaves
the reader feeling unsatisfied.

Review the previous excerpt from barbra jordan’s speech. answer the following 3 questions in the space below.

Which sentence is correctly punctuated? a. i haven’t found a new job, and i don’t plan to look for one until i have to. b. my work is piling up—day to day—and i can’t seem to get caught up. c. i know things could be worse (they have been in the past).

Take the following paragraph and write two separate paragraphs based on it. be sure to properly cite both parenthetically (don’t worry about a works cited) using this: (henderson). 1.) the first paragraph should contain a direct quote from the provided paragraph (the paragraph below). 2.) the second paragraph should contain a paraphrase of the provided information (the paragraph below). trees are in that they provide clean air. trees take in harmful gases from the air such as carbon dioxide, which is what people exhale from their lungs, and turn it into oxygen, which is what we inhale. they complete this process through photosynthesis, which requires carbon dioxide and then releases oxygen. without trees acting as nature's natural filter, the air would quickly become unbreathable to humans.