Beginning with paragraph 25, talbot presents some historical background on the american high school. how would the effect of this information have differed if she had opened the article with it?

Personally speaking, I believe that if Talbot opened the article by presenting some historical background, the article would not engage the typical reader. This is because a lot of people find historical information uninteresting. Her opening in Paragraph 1, "Daniel Kennedy remembers when he still thought that valedictorians were a good thing", is much better because it gives her the chance to engage more readers, more so because they probably have remembered the fight for the title Valedictorian, or they have even been involved in it.

i believe that the answer to the question provided above is that the role of campaign committees is to act as a bridge between state and local campaigns.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.