Read the following passage and then respond to the directions below.

Leo Panchello owns a small Italian restaurant along 19th Avenue. He's been making his own pasta for 30 years now, and his pizza is the legend of the neighborhood. Locals pack the place every evening, supping at his family style tables or enjoying cool drinks and the sunset on his patio.

Now picture Leo Panchello standing at his restaurant entrance surveying a parking lot as empty as the tables inside. All because of a torn up street and a ditch that makes it a hassle to get to Panchello's, even for his pizza.

Save our local businesses. Vote "No" on light rail.

Explain how the argument illustrates the slippery slope fallacy and why that fallacy makes the argument weak.

Describe the character of sissy jupe, from hard times, by charles dickens, in four sentences. use anaphora and one metaphor in your description.

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.

The dragon wakes is a metaphor for a big event; what is the event how does moonshadows belief about dragons him understand what is happening