With a population of fewer than 10,000 individuals remaining, the aye-aye is
considered an endangered species. In fact,
aye-ayes were thought to be completely
extinct in 1933, but they were rediscovered 15
years later. Habitat loss due to farming is one
reason behind why there are fewer and fewer
aye-ayes in existence. Another explanation is
local superstition The people of Madagascar
believe that the aye-aye is a sign of bad luck
and the only way to prevent misfortune is
killing the animal on sight

The author organizes this paragraph with
the purpose of describing the
A events that led to the aye-aye's
endangered status
B. causes of the aye-aye's decreasing
population and the effects of hunting on
the number of aye-aye in existence.
C fact that the aye-aye is on the
endangered species list and comparing it
with other animals on the list.
D. the problem with the aye-aye being an
endangered species and the steps being
taken to increase their population

Which sentence has a correctly placed participial phrase? a. we read about a pizza on the menu covered in pepperoni. b. covered in pepperoni, we read about a pizza on the menu. c. we, covered in pepperoni, read about a pizza on the menu. d. we read about a pizza covered in pepperoni on the menu.

Assignment first, create an outline that organizes the major events of samuel beckett's endgame into a traditional frve act structure your outline must include explanations for why you chose the events you did in each act second, write a paragraph that analyzes how endgame's structure affects its overall meaning.

[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