Iam giving away 40 of my points !
the overall structure of pausch's last lecture supports his purpose of enabling the childhood dreams of others, because it allows him to

a. explain the problems he had in realizing his dreams and how he solved them.

b. earn his audience's attention and then relay details about his experiences and learned wisdom.

c. illustrate why one's dreams need to be pursued in a logical order if success is to be obtained.

d. compare his dreams and successes to those of famous or respected people.

Which traits are strongest in your persuasive essay: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

What is the climax of chapter 2 of the the sound and the fury? a. the compsons sell their plot of land to send quentin to harvard. b. quentin drops out of school. c. quentin commits suicide. d. caddy gets pregnant.