Which transition is the best choice to complete the 5th sentence? 1Some people are born superstars, really! 2Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer is a perfect example. 3 his hands and feet are bigger than normal, which helps him move quickly through the water. 4___ he can reach his arms higher above his head than can other swimmers.

5 Some people argue, , that because he has natural advantages over other swimmers, it was not fair that he won eight gold medals in 2008.

A. Consequently
B. First of all
C. For the same reason
D. Equally important

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Question 5 the poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “tho' the morning was cold, tom was happy and warm / so if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” this is an ironic expression of the narrator’s

What do the sketches of 9/11 victims in "portraits of grief" achieve?