Marcus is giving a speech arguing the school board president hasn't been doing his job properly. which would be the most appropriate sentence to include in his speech?
a.
despite the rocky relationship, i do think our president does really care about what we care about, you know?
b.
how dare you only think of yourself while the school continues to suffer, clearly believing the world only revolves around your wants at the expense of our schools!
c.
we like, need a better computer lab and larger laboratories, so that we can be better at school and stuff.
d.
furthermore, the bonus you gave yourself, despite the tight school budget, proves you are unconcerned with maintaining our state-of-the-art facilities.

Writers try to let us know what is central to their writing. when we notice words such as "meanwhile," "afterward," "before," or "previously," an author is letting us know the order in which events happen. a paragraph that mostly uses these key words is arranged in what structural form?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive

What is the primary theme of ha jin’s “a decade”?