The passage What is the author's purpose for writing this text?
A Complication or Two
O to encourage young people to create a life plan
O to argue that medicine is a better career than law
O to tell an amusing story about how he met his wife
rejection letter from my Ivy League school of choice was the
major obstacle I encountered in my grand 10-year plan. It
not the last. I was 17, and at the time quite certain that
ing would derail me from my grandiose future. I planned to
eve everything my parents expected, and more. The first
was supposed to have been attending my parents' alma
er graduating with honors, and then moving on to law school
out pausing to let my peers-or competitors-catch me. To
that's not how it went is a gross understatement.
O to share something he has learned about life
eding a distraction in my moment of crisis, I decided to pick
another couple of hours of volunteer service. I rode the
way to Tri-Valley Hospital with that rejection letter wrinkled in
right fist. I probably should have left it at home, but I couldn't
207 PM

If someone wants to funds to you stick around it means they’re going to give you money

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.

200 words discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?