All children should start learning a foreign language in elementary school. This is vitally important. It is absurd that this is not commonly done in the United States. When Americans are ignorant of other fascinating languages and cultures, they look foolish and are less able to compete successfully in the world. Those who are against adding languages to our school curriculum are simply narrow-minded. Read the passage, then identify what type of writing it is.

the answer is persuasive

Which information would the reader know if the mother were the narrator? select each correct answer. what the father thought about his wife's involvement in politics

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.

Complete the following sentence with the phrase that is grammatically correct public libraries are important because they encourage learning, provide low-cost resources, and o o a. inspire community involvement b. community involvemeling o c. to inspire community involvement o d. inspiring community involvement