There are only good reasons why Mom and Dad should buy me a car for my birthday, as I so rationally explained to them just minutes ago; a car will make everyone in the family's schedule less hectic. First of all, Mom and Dad won't have to pick me up late at night when I get off of my job at the movie theater, which means that their sleep won't be interrupted. Second, Reagan won't have to wait an hour-and-a-half after school to drive me home after swim practice. Finally, I will be able to help out more around the house. If Mom realizes, for instance, that she needs more eggs for something she is baking, then I will be able to run out and get them for her. There is not a single reason why Mom and Dad should not buy me a car; therefore, I should be receiving a car for my birthday this year.

Auto = self crat/cracy = rule dem = people which sentence used the underlined word correctly?

Which type of conflict does della face in o. henry’s “the gift of the magi”? a. character versus society b. character versus machine c. character versus character d. character versus nature

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”