Part A What is the author’s purpose in the paragraph?

The author hopes to convince young people to buy a smartphone.

She wants to address opposing opinions about smartphone microscopes.

She hopes to show that it is worth the cost to have a working microscope.

The author wants to explain the process to make a smartphone microscope.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the paragraph best supports the answer to Part A?

“I’m not a mechanical whiz.…So if I can do this, anyone can do it.”

“I’m only saying that it’s a good idea for people who already have smartphones.”

“It’s a bit like buying a special app that lets you do even more with your phone!”

“Now, I know what some people might say.…In response, let me say two things.”

What are some of the images and diction used by the narrator that evoke the "dream of america"?

The dogs created when they pulled the christmas tree down and started eating the candy canes.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.