POSSIBLE POINTS: 21.21 Match the purpose of the expository essay to the title/description
An essay that compares the life before kids to life after kids
How to Talk to Your Friend who voted for the Other Guy
Three ways to make your parents wish they had never had
kids
The Effects of Global Warming in California
Deprssion Doesn't Make you Sad All the Time
5 Reasons to go to College
How Corporate Culture is Bad for Business
:: To persuade
:: To inform
.: To entertain

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt