Read the paragraph below. Then answer the question.
(1) The death penalty is popular with voters, who are frightened of violent crime, but it is not very effective in reducing the murder rate. (2) In the 1960s and 1970s, when murder rates were lower than today, the death penalty was hardly ever used. (3) Even today, the states that use the death penalty most also often have the highest murder rates. (4) In addition, every death sentence costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in appeals and lawyers’ fees. (5) The number of executions that take place in a state doesn’t seem to matter either. (6) There have actually been some years in which states that had many executions experienced higher homicide rates than states with fewer executions.
Which statement is the point of the argument?

Pls excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest—in the gale—is heard— and sore must be the storm— that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm— [3] i've heard it in the chillest land— and on the strangest sea— yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb—of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird “never … asked a crumb of me.” which type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

Which words indicate a text is written i the first-person? a. she, her, hers b. they, them, theirs c. he, him, his d. i, me, my

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.