Imagine your community is considering opening a state-of-the-art technology center near the town library. Some citizens are concerned about the cost, whether people would use it, having property damaged, and teens loitering or behaving inappropriately online. Your school counselor has asked you to participate in the discussion as a representative of the student body, which would benefit from having such resources available. You will have five minutes to make a speech to all in attendance at the town meeting and will then sit on a panel to answer questions from the community. To prepare for your speech, write out two to three reasons why the community should invest in the technology center, questions that you will need to research to prepare fully, and ways that you would respond to critics of the idea.

“dylan was a revolutionary,” bruce springsteen said in his 1988 speech inducting dylan into the rock and roll hall of fame. “the way that elvis freed your body, bob freed your mind.” early masterpieces such as “a hard rain’s a-gonna fall” and “visions of johanna” and “like a rolling stone” fueled a debate: are rock lyrics poetry? the answer must be yes, because on thursday, dylan was awarded the highest honor for a writer: the nobel prize in literature. the swedish academy, in making him the first american winner since novelist toni morrison in 1993, cited him for “having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition.” –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca what is the best summary of the author’s claim? rock lyrics can be like poetry. bob dylan was a revolutionary. musicians deserve nobel prizes. more americans deserve nobel prizes.