"Imagine that you are part of a Congressional committee that is attempting to convince lawmakers to bring up legislation to end the United States' membership in the United Nations. Write an argument against the United States' involvement in the United Nations based on the passages "Why the United Nations Is Still Necessary" (from FSA Lesson 17 Coached) and "Is the United Nations Still Necessary?" Be sure to consider the claims, reasons, and evidence presented in both passages. Include your own insights and observations, and provide supporting evidence from both sources. Be sure to address at least one opposing claim." What would your THESIS statement be?

you ask the question you want to answer when ever you are on the question you want to answer there should be a green box click that and type your answer. there is no texting.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.