Which response best states a main idea of "Background on Judge Sonia Sotomayor"? Sonia's experience on the debate team helps her win a college scholarship. Thanks to her mother, Sonia puts academics first and builds a successful career. As a young girl, Sonia enjoys reading mysteries to escape from the real world. Sonia loses her father at a young age, leaving her mother alone to raise her children.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.

On one hand, i aspire to an ivy league vocation: 1 professor of the sciences in higher education. 2 but like noble amphibians that thrive on land and in the stream, 3 i've got another world of which i like to gladly dream. 4 some say that it's abnormal; my affections are exclusive. 5 in science, they say, emotions are something quite elusive. 6 line 3 exemplifies which kind of figurative language? a) hyperbole b) metaphor c) onomatopoeia d) simile

Your essay should be short,just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example ofevery type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by asemicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing itabout the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.