What is the best explanation for the purpose of the article, "scratching the surface of mars"? a. the author wants the reader to understand all of the advances that have been made in technology to get people farther into space. b. with funding for nasa on the decline, the author is trying to get people to invest in space exploration. c. the author wants the reader to want to travel to mars, also. d. as space travel advances, nasa needs people to begin colonizing mars, so the author is trying to entice people to go.

Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the queswhen i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists whinstructed - 'to whom it may concern' - that we were marguerite and bailey johnson negropassengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for the poor littleand plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad.deducing from the diction, which of the following are possible audiences for the memoir select all that appchildren of three and four years of age like ones in the memoirafrican-american adults from the south who can relate to angelou's storycaucasian adults interested in american historytrain conductors and passengers

Gulliver's attempt to imitate the houyhnhnms gulliver to accept himself as he is causes gulliver to hate himself and other humans improves gulliver's character causes gulliver to be patient with people's problems next

Read this line from the poem. without the hell, the heav'n of joy. how do the images of hell and heaven in this line affect the meaning of the poem? a. they are reminders that love is a strong emotion. b.they show how the speaker of the poem has suffered emotionally. c.they refer to the emotional depths and heights of romantic relationships. d. they imply that the speaker is deeply religious