1. Determine the author’s point of view about Laura and Maurice’s friendship. Does the author have a positive, negative, or neutral opinion of their friendship? 2. Identify important events in Laura and Maurice’s friendship that the author includes in the text.
3. Explain what these events show about the author’s point of view about friendship.
4. Identify key words and phrases the author uses to describe the friendship between Laura and Maurice. What weighted words, or words with strong emotional associations, does the author use?
5. Explain what these weighted words and phrases show about the author’s point of view about friendship.
6. Explain how someone with a different opinion of Laura and Maurice’s friendship would write about it. Explain how that person’s description of events would change.

What is included in the body of a business letter

Read the excerpts from “take the tortillas out of your poetry” and “speaking arabic.” my friend had concluded that if he took his language and culture out of his poetry, he stood a better chance of receiving a fellowship. he took out his native language, the poetic patois of our reality, the rich mixture of spanish, english, pachuco and street talk which we know so well. in other words, he took the tortillas out of his poetry, which is to say he took the soul out of his poetry. at a neighborhood fair in texas, somewhere between the german oom-pah sausage stand and the mexican gorditas booth, i overheard a young man say to his friend, “i wish i had a heritage. sometimes i feel—so lonely for one.” and the tall american trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. which best states how the structures of both excerpts support ideas about cultural diversity? each incorporates non-english words. each incorporates academic words. each incorporates offensive words. each incorporates nonsense words.

Read the following excerpt and answer the question. "i can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom." (a modest proposal) the implicit meaning of the text is a. there are no reasonable objections to the author's proposal. b. the overpopulation problem is so dire that selecting some humans to be a food source is a just solution. c. a disadvantage of the proposal is that there will be fewer people under the monarchy. d.the situation in ireland is so bad that it calls for radical change.