Learning about public speaking can help improve your . a. relationships with others b. performance at school c. chances of getting a promotion at work d. all of the above Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D

In "there will come soft rains," why does the author turn the house into a mechanical creature? a. to stress how well run the future will be b. to keep readers from realizing at the start that no humans are present c. to stress how scientific advances can create the perfect society d. to compare the present with the earlier, non-mechanical times

Read this excerpt from mohandas gandhi's "banaras hindu university speech." what is the speaker's purpose a. to persuade his audience to struggle for self-governance through peaceful means b. to urge wealthy indians to act instead of merely talk about poverty c. to inform the audience that the british colonial power is stealing indian resources d. to persuade his audience to renounce materialistic wealth and pursue spiritual wealth

Read this excerpt from edgar allen poe the masque of the red death and answer the question that follows. what kind of writing does the excerpt represent? here the case was very diffierent, as might have been expected from the dukes love