30 POINTS

Today, you will conduct your own research. Speak with a minimum of five adults and ask them what they know about Vincent van Gogh. After receiving their feedback, use books from the library and trusted websites to research the life of Van Gogh. Did all your sources provide the same information. Was some information different? Write a short paragraph discussing your findings and explaining the differences in the information you found.

What is meant by “eternally burning black pipes”? what is this implying about the personality of the firemen?

Which sentence contains a participial phrase that is placed correctly? -jose paid for a hamburger scanning the cafeteria for an empty seat -peeling off her winter jacket, sierra settled into the cozy armchair. -made of soft wool, nadia pulled on a blue sweater -the cowboy jumped from the horse laughing in the face of danger

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader