Read the following excerpt from an oral history: george soon realized, however, that he was in a bigger dilemma than he had anticipated. he had no money. no banks were open, nor were any atms functioning. he was alone. he had never really had a close friend in this city. the only people he knew were other fellow students from his country who lived in baton rouge, about a hundred miles away. he was afraid to approach a uniformed officer, lest he got arrested and thrown into the immigration detention. he had heard stories of other illegal aliens who had gone to line up at fema aid distribution stations, only for the officials to call the immigration authorities who have them promptly arrested and detained. what does the author rely on primarily to develop the central idea of this excerpt? (10 points) a. he uses reasons to explain why george did not have anyone he could turn to for support. b. he employs details to illustrate the additional dilemmas an illegal immigrant faces. c. he uses examples to show what caused george to choose to become an illegal immigrant. d. he includes a list of specific facts from the timeline of george's struggles.

Which punctuation mark would best fill in the blanks in the following sentence in the past year i visited denver, colorado portland oregon and seattle washington

Research the literary work you want to discuss and gather enough evidence to support your thesis statement. then write a 300-word essay. apply the writing strategies you explored in this lesson.

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next