2. Read the paragraph below excerpted from "The Aftermath." Find three examples of statements that could be considered facts and three examples of opinion and write them in
the table below. (10 points)
Watching helpless New Orleans suffering day by day left people everywhere stunned and
angry and in ever greater pain. These things happened in Haiti, they said, but not here.
"Baghdad under water" is how former Louisiana Senator John Breaux described his beloved
city, as state officials told him they feared the death toll could reach as high as 10,000,
spread across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. No matter what the final tally, the
treatment of the living, black and poor and old and sick, was a disgrace. The problem with
putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an
estimated half a million refugees, a million people without power, 30.000 soldiers, up to
$100 billion in damage. "This is our tsunami," said Biloxi, Miss., Mayor A. J. Holloway. The
overstatement is forgivable, for at some point suffering becomes immeasurable, reduced to

Which quotation correctly uses ellipsis to shorten twain’s words?

Time is not always change. time can also mean continuity, and it can mean keeping acknowledged truths in mind despite differences in circumstances. there is no better example of this in things fall apart than the retellings of the proverb about the bird named eneke, the language in both retellings is almost identical despite the length of time that has passed between their repetitions. in comparing the usages of the same proverb, achebe allows his readers to note the similarities and differences between the situations, and he them understand how this story can be applied to their own lives.

Will give if correct read the passage first of all, if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that [it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest, but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norgay gazed down upon the world from its summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.