Imagine your community is considering opening a state-of-the-art technology center near the town library. Some citizens are concerned about the cost, whether people would use it, having property damaged, and teens loitering or behaving inappropriately online. Your school counselor has asked you to participate in the discussion as a representative of the student body, which would benefit from having such resources available. You will have five minutes to make a speech to all in attendance at the town meeting and will then sit on a panel to answer questions from the community. To prepare for your speech, write out two to three reasons why the community should invest in the technology center, questions that you will need to research to prepare fully, and ways that you would respond to critics of the idea.

Read the excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. which choice best describes the purpose of this text? to persuade readers to oppose the censorship of literature to inform readers about censorship in a specific country to entertain readers with stories about censorship to motivate readers to speak out against censorship mark this and return

In which type of essay would you expect to find the following passage? during the civil war, the economies of the northern and southern states differed: the north was industrial, while the south was agricultural. while sometimes these interests allowed for mutual economic goals, they also contributed in part to the conflict that fueled the onset of the civil war.

In a subject-by-subject comparison essay, a thesis statement must show how the theme is developed in both works. sum up all of the major points. compare and contrast the theme in both works. clearly explain the essay's topic and viewpoint.