Read this excerpt from we beat the street. they were scheduled for precalculus, biology, chemistry, computer skills, english, and critical-thinking courses. the courses were intense and demanding, with no tolerance for the sloppy work and careless attitudes of high school. why does the author include this information? to describe the students’ daily routine to explain the strict penalties for mistakes to establish the intensity of the program to illustrate the layout of the classrooms

In the passage the author clarify that the student were scheduled for several courses, and not just the courses are described as “intense and demanding” is also said that the “sloppy work and careless attitudes” would not be tolerated we can conclude with this information how strong was the program, the author wants to establish the intensity of the program.

martians or other types of aliens represent a unique fear as opposed to zombies. vampires and other types of monsters.   in most sci-fi stories, aliens come from other worlds and have different or more advanced technology.   abductions and experimentation on human bodies that involve these technologies, or the use of these technologies against human beings and the use of unknown "powers", are a type of fear that's different from that of other types of monsters.  

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