Select three quotes below from Passage 1 that help the author develop the idea that teens often engage in various types of media when doing other activities at the same time. “One concern: the number of youngsters who feel comfortable multi-tasking while doing homework.” (paragraph 2)

“Television is a favorite activity of preteens, with 62 percent of respondents aged 8 to 12 saying they watched every day, the study said.” (paragraph 4)

“Exactly half of the time teenagers spend with video involves watching a TV program at the time it originally airs.” (paragraph 5)

“The survey found male teenagers spent an average of 56 minutes a day gaming, while girls devoted only seven minutes.” (paragraph 6)

“Half of the teenagers said they watch TV or use social media either ‘a lot’ or ‘sometimes’ while doing homework…” (paragraph 7)

“Half of the teens say that listening to music actually helps their work, while only 6 percent said they thought it hurt.” (paragraph 7)

What do you think tennyson is saying about the role of the artist and the connection of the artist to his or her society? cite evidence from the poem to support your view. your answer should be at least one hundred words.

What exaggeration about him smiley does the narrator of the notorious jumping frog of calveras county make

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .