Which clause from the passage uses passive voice? a.
“When novelist Peter James published his thriller Host on two discs in 1993 . . . ” (paragraph 5)
b.
“. . . they choose to experience the physicality of the book . . . ” (paragraph 7)
c.
“Furthermore, less than 10 percent of these devices are recycled . . . ” (paragraph 8)
d.
“. . . jet passengers reaching cruising altitudes often reach for a paperback or a print magazine.” (paragraph 1)

Accepted is to fact as unproven is to

[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

What were the strengths used to persuade the audience in the speech “i have a dream” i really need on this one. i also posted a few more. can someone ?