I WILL GIVE ANYONE 100 POINTS TO WHOEVER GETS THIS RIGHT. **EXPLORING MUSIC** Imagine this: The government has passed a new law: there will be no music allowed, of any kind, anywhere! Create a presentation addressing the President where you defend the value of music to humankind. Be sure to include:

The three roles of music
Financial benefits of concert attendance to the community
Academic and emotional benefits of music
Two scenarios that demonstrate what you imagine life will be like if the law stands and music is not allowed
Specifics:

Presentation must be at least ten slides long
Presentation must include four photos and one video
Please use at least four sources and list them on the last slide
It is fine to use internet sources, but be sure that they are trustworthy. Good internet sources are ones like: government websites (.gov), national and regional newspapers, academic journals, or books that are available in digital format

Read the following claim. people likely will continue making new year's resolutions despite often being unable to follow through on them. which selection from the article provides the best support for this statement?

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next