Which one of the following statements contains bias?
a. the school budget was reduced by 20 percent.
b. it was sunday afternoon before he finished.
c. it has rained for three days without stopping.
d. the employees whined about their low wages.

You have been given an assignment to speak on the federal prison system in the u.s. which of the following sources is likely to be the least credible? a. an interview with an inmate of a federal prison b. the us department of justice “federal bureau of prisons” website: c. the website [] which discusses the danger of releasing an alarming number of convicts back into society d. an article from foxnews.com about the florida state penitentiary

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 imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

In what ways is crooks even more lonely than the other men on the ranch