Your teacher has given you the assignment to deliver a 7-10 minute speech about gun control laws to your classmates. Begin your preparation by narrowing your topic and deciding on a purpose (i. e. to persuade or to inform), then write a specific thesis statement for your speech.

The topic of the speech would be about gun control and the purpose of the speech would be to persuade the audience for stricter gun control laws. The United States should make stricter gun control laws because of the increase school shootings, illegal hunting of certain animals, and the increase of criminal activity involving guns.

Explanation:

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dickinson punctuation and lines in her poems to establish a rhythm. each reader will naturally find themselves reading the poem in the same way. she uses the repeating question marks and exclamation points to convey the passion in her words. shelley uses punctuation to paint a picture in the reader's mind. for example, the ellipses after "stand in the dessert" evoke a silence, as it would feel in a deserted, old place.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”