Read this passage from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. Hughes was assigned to find infected cow parts at meat processing plants in Washington. He remembers the sad look on some owners’ faces when he flashed his badge. If there was a chance that any of their meat might have mad cow, they’d have to throw it all away.

"The business they built from scratch was destroyed—through no fault of their own. And there was nothing they could do about it," Hughes says.

The tone in this passage most suggests that Hughes is

caring.
dedicated.
tense.
focused.

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What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir