What is the author's purpose in this passage from "how to eat an ice-cream cone"? melted ice cream, children, is a fluid that is eternally sticky. one drop of it on a car-door handle spreads to the seat covers, to trousers, to hands, and thence to the steering wheel, the gearshift, the rearview mirror, all the knobs of the dashboard—spreads everywhere and lasts forever, spreads from a nice old car like this, which might have to be abandoned because of stickiness, right into a nasty new car, in secret ways that even scientists don't understand. a. the author is trying to encourage the audience to eat ice cream carefully b. the author is trying to persuade the audience not to eat ice cream c. the author is trying to use humor in order to entertain the audience d. the author is trying to inform the audience what can happen to a car

C. The author is trying to use humor in order to entertain the audience

Explanation:

L. Rust Hills'  "How to Eat an Ice-Cream Cone" offers a bend on the normal how-to control. Slopes' utilization of theme decision, vocabulary, and configuration present his group of onlookers with an unexpected and funny way to deal with eating a frozen treat, appearing in the process how crazy the how-to kind can be.

no,

explanation:

because they are likely to use their corrupted thought process to get what they want. not what is better for the another reason they shouldn't is since they abused their rights as a us citizen they should have certain rights stripped away from them as punishment, such as the right to vote. due to the lack of proper behavior exemplified   from their actions , it would be hard for people to trust them because of their criminal record.   either directly (in the case of a referendum or ballot initiative) or indirectly (by choosing lawmakers and law enforcers). in fact, we do have certain minimum, objective standards of responsibility and commitment to our laws that we require people to meet before they are given a role in the solemn enterprise of self-government. people who have committed serious crimes against their fellow citizens don’t meet those standards. and those crimes can include such “non-violent felonies” as, say, treason and espionage, or voter fraud and public corruption, white-collar crime and felonies merely “concerning drugs” — like trafficking in fentanyl-laced heroin and selling it to minors, for example. if you’re not willing to follow the law, then you should not have a role in making the law for everyone else.