Choose the statement that best applies to the thesis of the student's response. a. the response contains a clear thesis statement that expresses the main idea and can be supported or proven with textual evidence. (example: brutus and caesar, though on opposite sides in the play, are not entirely different.) b. the response contains a thesis statement, but it does not clearly express the main idea and cannot be supported or proven with textual evidence. c. the response does not contain a thesis statement.

He believes in tow articles,- two instruments, shall i say? - the golden rule and the declaration of independence; and he used the expression in conversation here concerning them, "better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than one word of either should be violated in this country." there is a unionist.- there is a strict constructionist of you. he believes in the union of the united states, and he concevies that the only obstruction to the union is slavery, and for that reason as a patriot he words for it's abolition. which statement best demonstrates how emerson uses this excerpt in his defense of john brown?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

Which of the following is an example of a literary text? a. memoirs c. novels b. plays d. all of the above