1.The human body is capable of a great variety of physical activities. 2.With training, some individuals can run a mile in less than four minutes, or lift more than their won weight. 3. Sensitive motor skills allows us to thread a needle, turn our head to focus on a single star, and throw a baseball into the strike zone. 4. Considered individually, any one of these activities may not seem amazing. 5. However, for a single structure (the human body) to be capable of all of them is remarkable indeed. Which sentence is the topic sentence?

In a 10-12 sentence response-style paragraph, explore the degree to which you agree or disagree with faulkner’s message. “i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. he is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. the poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. it is his privilege to man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. the poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to him endure and prevail” (faulkner 773-775).