Angela, an officer with the Wildlife and Parks Department, writes a proposal to urge the city council not to develop an area of nearby wetlands. Which approach from Angela's proposal demonstrates the use of ethos? A.) She provides statistics about the relationship between wetland destruction and animal population. B.) She demonstrates how she conducted quality research and considered alternative perspectives. C.) She discusses the birds that rely on the wetlands to nest and raise their young. D.) She defines wetlands in terms that are easy to understand.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.