April 23, 2013 There are so many opportunities to make a difference in another person’s life. As life gets busy, we tend to lose sight of what’s important, like giving back to the community. Here are some ideas to participate in public service. Local soup kitchens and food pantries are always looking for volunteers. There are also many nursing homes that welcome volunteers. Additionally, many nonprofit businesses, like the YMCA, offer opportunities for people to donate their time. I have included many links throughout my blog that guide people to volunteer opportunities in their area. Think about how you would like to give back. Sometimes getting friends involved can make the experience even more meaningful. Get involved today; it’s never too late!

Read an excerpt from Ameena’s blog entry "Reaching Out to the Community"

Which statement from the excerpt best supports the purpose of writing to inform?

Think about how you would like to give back.
There are also many nursing homes that welcome volunteers.
As life gets busy, we tend to lose sight of what’s important.
Get involved today; it’s never too late!

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

The lovely voices in ardor appealing over the water made me crave to listen, and i tried to say 'untie me! ' to the crew, jercing my brows; but they bent steady to the oars. then perimedes got to his feet, he and eurylochus, and passed more line about, to hold me still. –the odyssey, homer which quotation is correctly formatted using ml. a citation? a. “i tried to say / 'untie me! ' to the crew, jercing my brows.” (homer 80) b. homer writes, “i tried to say / 'untie me! ' to the crew, jercing my brows” (80). c. “i tried to say / 'untie me! ' to the crew, jercing my brows” (homer 77-78). d. homer writes, “i tried to say / 'untie me! ' to the crew, jercing my brows (77-78).”

Which graph correctly represents the information about the length of one day in the passage