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Read the following
"Eight dollars a week or a million dollars a year-how different are they?" (paragraph 7)
How does the phrase from Passage 2 illustrate the overall meaning of the text?
It stresses the lengths some people will go to achieve wealth
o It reinforces the idea that money cannot buy love and happiness.
It emphasizes the foolishness of Jim and Della's gifts for each other.
0 It highlights the differences between the lives of rich and poor people.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

In the poem which word in stanza 5 provides a hint to the meaning of the word gloating?

Which sentence is punctuated correctly? the shoes normally cost 40 dollars, however; we got them on sale. the shoes normally cost 40 dollars however we got them on sale. the shoes normally cost 40 dollars, however, we got them on sale. the shoes normally cost 40 dollars; however, we got them on sale.