Read the excerpt from a speech given by President Barack Obama in 2009. President Obama’s National Address to America’s Schoolchildren

Which claim made in the speech is supported by reasons or evidence?
A) "If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupd, it just means you need to spend more time studying."

B) "You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in."

C) "So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right."

D) "These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you—you have to let your failures teach you."

ANSWER IS D.

What is a brief and often humorous statement of truth or opinion, such as "a watched pot never boils"

Read the passage and choose the correct punctuation marks

Read the excerpt from "politics and the english language" by george orwell. by this morning’s post i have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions in germany. the author tells me that he "felt impelled” to write it. i open it at random, and here is almost the first sentence that i see: "[the allies] have an opportunity not only of achieving a radical transformation of germany’s social and political structure in such a way as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in germany itself, but at the same time of laying the foundations of a cooperative and unified europe.” which statement is correct? orwell uses an example and statistical evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses an example and a quotation for evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and factual evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and statistical evidence in this excerpt.