What is the author's purpose in this passage from "how to eat an ice-cream cone"? melted ice cream, children, is a fluid that is eternally sticky. one drop of it on a car-door handle spreads to the seat covers, to trousers, to hands, and thence to the steering wheel, the gearshift, the rearview mirror, all the knobs of the dashboard—spreads everywhere and lasts forever, spreads from a nice old car like this, which might have to be abandoned because of stickiness, right into a nasty new car, in secret ways that even scientists don't understand. a. the author is trying to encourage the audience to eat ice cream carefully b. the author is trying to persuade the audience not to eat ice cream c. the author is trying to use humor in order to entertain the audience d. the author is trying to inform the audience what can happen to a car

He believes in tow articles,- two instruments, shall i say? - the golden rule and the declaration of independence; and he used the expression in conversation here concerning them, "better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than one word of either should be violated in this country." there is a unionist.- there is a strict constructionist of you. he believes in the union of the united states, and he concevies that the only obstruction to the union is slavery, and for that reason as a patriot he words for it's abolition. which statement best demonstrates how emerson uses this excerpt in his defense of john brown?

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.

Truth is one that’s been valid for centuries.