Write a fictional scene. Write a single scene about an important, fictional event. The scene must establish a clear point of view and take place in a well-described setting. The scene may be about anything you can imagine as long as you describe it clearly.

Your scene should include the following elements:

A fictional event of some kind, such as an important conversation or a major discovery
A point of view, which may be a first person, third-person limited, or third-person.
A setting that lets the reader know the place and time in which your event occurs
At least one narrative technique from the lesson, such as dialogue

Published in 1849, by was inspired by the writer's experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the mexican-american war.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Which sentence contains the central claim in "compulsory voting: an idea whose time has come" by tor hunter?