Read the following essay. Which two sentences does the author use to inform the audience about the entire main topic of the essay? (Every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. Option A) Finals are over. (You can just kick back and relax. Option B) You can read whatever you want, go wherever you want, watch TV all day, or surf the Internet. (The days stretch out, full of fun and laughs. Option C) Every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. 9Every teenager—except me. option D) Dad would gather us around the dinner table and give us this year’s destination. Option E) We couldn’t refuse. To Dad, it was sacred family time. So we smiled and looked excited. Then we would all pile into the car. Just the four of us—dad, mom, my sister, and me—would have been somewhat bearable. But for my dad, the summer trip was not just family time, but extended family time.

What if puerto rico required all cement to carry a label with the location where it was manufactured and the date it was packaged? does that regulation discriminate against interstate manufacturers?

Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs. david sedaris's essay "our perfect summer" appeared in the june 16, 2003, issue of the new yorker. match each element of sedaris's essay to an element of a narrative essay. tiles time setting plot geographical setting conflict characters pairs the writer and his mother had always talked about the family buying a second home like the rich people they knew. the writer grew up in raleigh, north carolina, and his emerald isle in the summers.

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.