A writer presents the following claim and counterclaim: Claim: The school cafeteria should start a composting program

Counterclaim: Composting is too messy

Which answer most clearly connects the claim to the counterclaim?

A. Those opposed to the idea of composting say it's very messy, but a lot of the food and trash gets thrown on the floor and the ground anyway, so wouldn't composting be a better idea?

B. School officials complain that collecting compost would create unnecessary mess in the cafeteria, yet we already collect aluminum and plastic in special bins and no one complains of this.

C. Since we already recycle at our school, why should it be so difficult to recycle our food, too, in a composting program that would benefit the environment as well?

D. The administrative staff doesn't want to have a composting program because they claim it's messy, but we pay cafeteria workers to clean up all of the messy food left on the tables.

What is the meaning of the word checking as it is used in this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage?

"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

Pls due today which excerpt from the text most effectively demonstrates that the narrator's point of view about the cabuliwallah has changed? "i felt a little sorry, and would have called him back, but i found he was returning of his own accord." "i sent for mini immediately from the inner apartment. many difficulties were raised, but i would not listen." "tears came to my eyes. i forgot that he was a poor cabuli fruit-seller, while i was—. but no, what was i more than he? he also was a father." "i took them and was going to pay him, but he caught my hand and said: "you are very kind, sir! keep me in your recollection. do not offer me money! —"