Read the passage. (1) ask young people today if they know of anyone who has had smallpox, and they might ask, "what’s smallpox? ” (2) that is because this disease was eradicated from the planet decades ago, to vaccinations. (3) despite the obvious effectiveness of vaccination, opponents of this procedure argue that humans are better off fighting diseases on their own without adding anything potentially harmful to their bodies. (4) still, the american academy of pediatrics says that vaccines can be 99 percent effective, and the centers for disease control claims that, over a 10-year period, vaccines allowed 322 million children to avoid illnesses. (5) so the next time someone tells you that vaccines are poisoned apples that will lead to a fate like snow white’s, counter their argument with the facts. (6) the bottom line is that vaccines are safe to use and save lives. how can the writer use understatement in this passage? by changing the phrase “young people” to “most people” in sentence 1 by deleting the words obvious and potentially from sentence 3 by adding the phrase “so a few lives might be saved” to the end of sentence 4 by shortening the passage to only five sentences by removing sentence 5

What point of view is expressed by judith sargent murray in her essay "on the equality of the sexes"? a- that men would benefit from women learning more about taking care of their homes b- that women's lives would be enriched if they had access to further education c- that children would progress further in school if their mothers studied with them d-that society would be more accepting of women who attended school

Which type of character best describes odysseus ?

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”