The Selective Laziness of Human Reasoning PART A: Which of the following best identifies the authors main claim in the text?
A. People are naturally inclined towards their own arguments because they are too stubborn to consider another mode of thinking.
B. People are more adamant about proving that someone else's opinion is wrong rather then proving why their opinion is right.
C. People tend to prefer their own opinions over others because they consider their sources to be more reliable.
D. People will argue to support incorrect information merely for the satisfaction of winning the argument.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Which sentence is an effective example of i-language for the following scenario? aaron's coworker bryce has not been working on the team project their boss assigned them. answer choices: "i need you to do some work on this project." "i feel like this assignment isn't a priority to you." "i wish you wouldn't be so casual about this." "i think you're incompetent."

In the great gatsby, daisy is described as