Select the correct text in the passage. Reflective essays explore what the author believes and the origins of those beliefs. Which sentences in this excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother
Tongue" indicate where Tan's beliefs came from?
You should know that my mother's expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report.
listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine's books with ease. -all kinds of things I can't begin
to understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fifty percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand eighty to
ninety percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear.
perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid. direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that
helped shape the way saw things. expressed things, made sense of the world.

In at least 150 words, discuss the symbolic significance of janie’s hair in their eyes were watching god

Match each persuasive technique with the excerpt that uses it. expert opinion association emotional appeal scientific data compared to the yearly average of 6.5 million square kilometers between 1979 and 2010 for september, the arctic sea ice shrank below 4 million square kilometers in september 2012, which is lower than any minimum value observed in the last three decades. (european environmental agency, “the melting arctic") arrowright according to morten olsen, chair of a recent arctic council assessment of changes on arctic snow-and ice-conditions, "changes in the climate and cryosphere risk fundamentally altering the arctic ecosystems." (european environmental agency, “the melting arctic") arrowright sip a cup of turbo brown to taste the liberating power of flying through your day's work like a cruising jet. arrowright if we don't step up our efforts, the melodious songs of these beautiful birds might be silenced forever. arrowright

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the three (3) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. your sister has a new boyfriend. the first time you meet him, he corners you and talks to you for an hour about football, a subject in which you have no interest at all. you come away with the impression that he is an inconsiderate bore. the next two times you see him, however, he says not a word about football. he participates in the general conversation and makes some witty and intelligent remarks. what is your impression of him now? do you find him likable and interesting on the basis of the last two encounters? do you average out the early minus and the later plus and come out with a neutral zero? neither is likely. what is likely is that you still think of him as an inconsiderate bore. psychological research suggests that first impressions, as our mothers and fathers told us, are quite lasting. 1. the words “neutral zero” refer to an impression that is positive. 2. the words “neutral zero” refer to an impression that is neither positivenor negative. 3. the selection suggests that it’s a good idea to make good firstimpressions. 4. the selection suggests that it can be difficult to remain objective aboutothers. 5. first impressions tend to be fair and balance