In paragraph 2, how does the author's mention of prom celebrations throughout the past century reveal our cultural values and feelings about prom?

How might a differing cultural point of view alter how someone responds to this article?

Explain how new technologies are both helping us hold on to our old traditions while also forever changing them.

What does the involvement of celebrities imply about the seriousness with which we hold prom as a rite of passage?

Generation Z (which includes this year’s graduates) has been maligned (spoken of disparagingly; critical) as a lazy and difficult generation; what evidence from the text shows that they are actually rather innovative and resilient?

Explain how the loss of prom - a communal experience - is also a communal experience?

Is this text an example of narrative, informational, or argument writing? Does the piece combine two or more of these types? Explain and use textual evidence to support your answer.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.