Read the following passage and then respond to the directions below. John doe is at it again. In another one of his liberal, big business schemes, he's after tax-payers' pocket books, trying to convince them that phoenix needs a rail system. Phoenicians know better. Our freeways and bus system are doing just fine. Since when did doe regain our trust, anyway? his last idea cost millions and voters had to repeal his proposition to keep the state coffers from being emptied. If doe is expecting us to forget that, he's as crazy as his idea for light rail. Vote "no" on november 7. Explain how the argument illustrates the ad hominem fallacy and why that fallacy makes the argument weak.

liberal arts college

answer:

is this serious

explanation:

answer: compare a myth legend, or classic work of literature of you choice to a modern work that reinterprets it.focus on the similarities in theme between the newer work and the original, and provide examples that illustrate these themes from both works. the modern work may be any novel, movie, play, short story, or other storytelling medium with which you’re familiars long as it is clearly inspired by a myth, legend, or classic work of literature.

short-response prompt  

read the following excerpt from “fish cheeks” by amy tannin which tan recounts a christmas eve dinner.  

i fell in love with the minister’s son the winter i turned fourteen. he was not chinese, but as white as mary in the manger. for christmas i prayed for this blond-haired boy, robert, and a slim new american nose.  

on christmas eve i saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu. she was pulling black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns. the kitchen was littered with appalling mounds of raw food: a slimy rock cod with bulging fish eyes that pleaded not to be thrown into a pan of hot oil. tofu, which looked like stacked wedges of rubbery white sponges. a howl soaking dried fungus back to life. a plate of squid, their backs crisscrossed with knife markings so they resembled bicycle tires.  

after everyone had gone, my mother said to me. “you want to be the same as american girls on the outside.” she handed me an early gift. it was a miniskirt in beige tweed. “but in side you must always be chinese. you must be proud you are different. your only shame is to have shame.”

answer:

im a boy

explanation: