Read the following scenario. Then, take a position on this question and write a persuasive essay in which you argue for your position. Be sure to provide reasons for your position and examples to support your reasons. This essay should contain at least TWO paragraphs. Also, include a ONE SENTENCE counterclaim and immediately refute it. The counter claim may begin like this: "Some people may believe that"

And the refute should begin like this: "However" or "I disagree because" or "they are wrong because." You want your refute to be longer with more details than the one sentence counterclaim.

DO NOT begin your response with "yes" or "no." Instead, begin with a topic sentence that includes your position.

Prompt:

Josh has been in a band with his friends since they were little kids. As he has grown older, Josh has come to recognize that he is a better musician than his friends are. Instead of playing in his friends' garage band, Josh is thinking about joining the all-city jazz band, where he can play with and learn from some of the best musicians around.

Should Josh join the jazz band instead of playing with his friends? Consider the positions below as you think about how you would answer this question.

This excerpt is an example of which kind of characterization? indirect characterization, because it is showing della’s pride in her long hair direct characterization, because it is describing della’s skill for decorating indirect characterization, because it is revealing della’s cultural heritage direct characterization, because it is describing della’s prized possessions

How does lennie's puppy die in of mice and men?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification