Thinking back to that presentation in the library makes me smile. What started out as three high school boys skipping class turned out to be the most significant event in our lives. If we had made it to the gym that day instead of the library, more than likely the streets would have swallowed us in the next few years. We never would have become doctors. Everything we needed to start on the road to success was included in one forty-five-minute presentation. And we almost missed it. —We Beat the Street, Sampson Davis et al Based on the passage, what is the most important cause that led George and his friends to becoming doctors? Explain your answer in one to two sentences.

Short stories by male dark romantic writers explored insanity, also called madness, as suffered by young women. what is the tone of this passage?

What is the purpose of text features? (5 points) they readers understand what they should learn from the text. they provide legal documentation to researchers who cite the sources. they work to demonstrate factual evidence of ancient historical statistics. they allow readers to make up their own minds about what really happened.

Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. my silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the ac’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. the coach, in a slight accent neither british nor australian, is telling c.t. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. in this excerpt, the narrator is providing a, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries. b. only objective information about people, setting, and events. c. only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences. d. a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.