Read this excerpt from a biology textbook. an organism’s functions are the processes that enable it to stay alive and reproduce. some functions in organisms include obtaining oxygen, getting rid of wastes, obtaining food, and growing. cells are involved in all these functions. for example, cells in your digestive system absorb food. the food provides your body with energy and materials needed for growth. which part of this paragraph states the main point? some functions in organisms include obtaining oxygen, getting rid of wastes, obtaining food, and growing. the food provides your body with energy and materials needed for growth. cells are involved in all these functions. for example, cells in your digestive system absorb food. an organism’s functions are the processes that enable it to stay alive and reproduce.

In “we wear the mask,” which message is conveyed by dunbar’s repetition of the phrase “we wear the mask”?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Why was kennedy concerned about the use of nuclear weapons