Read this passage to answer the following question: Blog Post

Four-year universities are the only good option for life after high school. Everybody I know is going to a four-year school, which shows that it is the most popular choice.

There are no other ways to learn or get a good job if you don't go to a four-year school. Plus, for most people, you can just take out a few loans and pay them back when you get a job. That's what my older brother did, and it's really not that expensive.

Finally, a four-year university is the only way you can make friends or travel abroad or get great internships. Anyone who doesn't choose a four-year university is missing out.

What evidence does the author use to support his argument?

A) Anyone who doesn't choose a four-year university will miss good jobs.

B) Going to a four-year university is popular with the people I know.

C) A four-year university wasn't very expensive for my brother.

D) The author doesn't present any facts to support his argument.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

The actors spoke loudly clearly and confidently. punctuate this sentence using the oxford comma

"as one of our outstanding historical figures once said, ‘when a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without but rather because of enemies from within.’" (paragraph 7) how does this quote reveal mccarthy’s point of view and advance the purpose of his speech?