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Carmelo is writing a thesis for a media analysis essay.The Recycling Commission says in its posters that viewers will make a better world by correctly recycling items in their homes.

Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans.”They and their Dutch and English competitors, who followed later in the sixteenth century, carried gold and ivory to Europe and in return brought commodities from all over the world that were greatly valued by the Oba’s court . . .

Read the passage from The War of the Worlds.There were really, I should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active.

Which sentence should be revised to include commas to set off a nonrestrictive element?

The best strategy for an active listener to apply is to

Read the sentence.The shop next door, which is family owned, creates specially made, chocolate covered desserts.

Which are examples of genres? Check all that apply.playsdiagramsnovelsessayslecturesequations

Read the excerpt from Sudanese Slit Drum.It is another document of the enduring geopolitical fault-line around the Nile cataracts that we have encountered twice before: in the sphinx of Taharqo (Chapter 22) and the head of Augustus (Chapter 35). This drum is part of the history of indigenous African culture, of the East African slave trade centred on Khartoum, and of the European scramble for Africa at the end of the nineteenth century.

Which sentence most needs to be revised to eliminate a split infinitive?

Read the sentence.During the Cold War, scientists competed in the "space race.”

Read the excerpt from "How to Think Like a Researcher," a chapter from How to Find Out Anything.But don’t throw your hands up in frustration and disgust just yet. Instead, let’s recast that open-ended question into a series of factual questions that you can answer.How much did CEO Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems earn in 2007?What was the average salary paid to the chief executive officers at the ten largest computer companies in the past five years?Who is an expert on computer industry compensation whom I can interview and quote?What books can I consult that discuss compensation trends in the software industry?By coming up with a series of factual questions to ask, the initial abstract question starts to take shape as a concrete project. These factual questions will yield to diligent research because answers to each of them can be found.

Which are examples of strong evidence that could be used to support a claim in a debate? Check all that apply.anecdotesexamplesfactsopinionsstatistics

Consider this painting entitled The Astronomer by Vermeer.

Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.The process of redefining the British political nation was a slow one. It began in the 1820s, and by the 1880s roughly 60 per cent of the male population had the right to vote – but no women. The campaign for women's suffrage had begun shortly after the Great Reform Act of 1832, but the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born and with it a new level of female assertiveness, indeed violence. Here are the words of Dame Ethel Smyth, who composed the song ‘March of the Women’, which was a battle hymn of the suffragettes.

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave.”But there are other ways of reading Hokusai’s Great Wave. Look a little closer and you see that the beautiful wave is about to engulf three boats with frightened fishermen, and Mount Fuji is so small that you, the spectator, share the feeling that the sailors in the boats must have as they look to shore – it’s unreachable, and you are lost. This is, I think, an image of instability and uncertainty. The Great Wave tells us about Japan’s state of mind as it stood on the threshold of the modern world, which the US was soon going to force it to join.

For what reasons do poets use parallelism? Check all that apply.to create vivid imageryto draw attention to certain words and ideasto create rhythmto restate the same idea using different grammatical structuresto create emotional effects

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Sometimes hyphens are used to link words that work together to modify a single noun. These linked words are called

Read the passages from The War of the Worlds.But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between Horsell, Ottershaw, and Woking, rose early with the idea of finding it. Find it he did, soon after dawn, and not far from the sand pits. . . . A large piece suddenly came off and fell with a sharp noise that brought his heart into his mouth.For a minute he scarcely realised what this meant, and, although the heat was excessive, he clambered down into the pit close to the bulk to see the Thing more clearly.

Which excerpt from A Princess of Mars most supports the conclusion that the narrator is reckless?