Read the excerpt from a contemporary story. lara was one of the brightest computer programmers her professor had ever seen. she shared her gifts by tutoring other students, many of whom were much older. it was a common sight to see her staying late in the library, huddled over her trusted, beat-up laptop, someone. so when she retreated with her laptop to her room and refused to leave, it created a wave of discontent at the school. which sentence from the passage best supports the conclusion that the author was influenced by amaterasu? lara was one of the brightest computer programmers her professor had ever seen. she shared her gifts by tutoring other students, many of whom were much older. it was a common sight to see her staying late in the library, huddled over her trusted, beat-up laptop, someone. so when she retreated with her laptop to her room and refused to leave, it created a wave of discontent at the school.

Which is the best example of manipulating an audience through media? a. playing sinister music while interviewing a celebrity b. criticizing a professional athlete without providing reasons c. starting a web form for a discussion about a new app d. filing a complaint against a company for its bad service

[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

Power going out story i need with a plot and the starting point is you wake up late, the power is out, and yeah. plz try to make it non complex since i have to write it in spanish