Read a student's conclusion to her informational piece about banning the use of plastic bags in grocery stores. as more and more cities and then states ban plastic bags in grocery stores, people will be forced to change their habit of relying on them. which sentence should the student add to create the most effective conclusion? there should be a law to ban the use of these bags across the whole country, and soon. people in the united states were using 100 billion plastic bags a year, and the bags were piling up. it is better to use reusable canvas or vinyl bags, which are more economical and environmentally sound. plastic bags are generally used only once and then thrown away.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?