If many children don’t meet strict asylum Criteria but face read the excerpt from children of the drug wars significant dangers if they return the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past for Cam Bodian and he tends it may be possible to transfer children and reset up them and other safe countries willing to share the burden 

what is the authors purpose in this excerpt?

a) to express an opinion about US asylum policies

b) to prompt feelings of sympathy

c) to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process

d) to provide facts and details about cambian and haitians children

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

How is dr. lanyon characterized in the excerpt? as friendly as arrogant as wise as mournful

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism