Question 10 Read the question and type your response in the box provided. Your response will be saved automatically. Read the two paragraphs. Usually, I don't get nervous about things, but in sixth grade I had two of the most unnerving experiences of my life. One frightening experience was running for student council. I began working to be a student representative at the beginning of the school year. I hung up posters, passed out flyers, and gave speeches in assembly. On Election Day, the vote was really close, but I won by a narrow margin. Mr. Smithson, the choir director, asked all the people who wanted to try out for the school musical to meet in the choir room after school the following Monday. I practiced and practiced. On the day of the tryouts, I was really nervous, but I got through the song. Even though I lost the part to my best friend, A. J., trying out for the school musical was still a great experience. Write a sentence that could be added to the beginning of the second paragraph to connect the two paragraphs. Use words from both paragraphs in your sentence.

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the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).

to the people and they all dies in the end