Microcomputers can be connected to a huge network of computers via telephone lines. Messages of all types—personal calls, letters, news programs—can be stored and retrieved whenever needed. The microcomputer can also be used to record financial transactions and to keep track of household inventory. It can tell people when the inventory of any item is low, as well as how much money is needed to pay for purchases. Some people predict that this capability will eventually mean that money will become obsolete (out of date) and that a cashless society will result, as computers handle all the transactions. 1 Select the correct answer. What does the author imply in this paragraph? A. Microcomputers will make letters and newspapers obsolete. B. Microcomputers will make the use of cash more common. C. Microcomputers have the potential to revolutionize society. D. Microcomputers are not likely to have any more impact on society.

Explain the difference between do vs does like: do something do this does something do this

Chicago by carl sandburg hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification

The excerpt is from a longer essay on huckleberry finn by mark twain. what kind of support is used to develop the writer's main idea regarding how twain brought his characters to life?