In some countries, young people are required to spend a year in the military after they finish high school. Some argue that this system gives all citizens equal responsibility for defending their country. Opponents point out that young people are forced to train for war even if they are against violence. Should a year of military service after high school be required for all US citizens? Write an essay arguing for your position.

To make your essay convincing, be sure to include 2–4 body paragraphs and 2–4 pieces of evidence per body paragraph.

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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Hyperbole in the book messenger by lois lowry

She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. which literary technique does the stanza demonstrat