Which evidence best supports the claim that living in a foreign country is the smartest way to learn a new language?

a: i really hope to spend a semester in paris because it is the perfect place to see cultural landmarks and improve my french.
b: a television advertisement encourages students to purchase language study software and guarantees a forty-five percent improvement in six weeks.
c: my father spent several years in peru and learned to speak spanish so fluently that people thought he was a native peruvian.
d: language researchers found that students who lived in a foreign country learned the new language sixty-five percent faster than students learning at home.

read the counterclaim in an argumentative essay about the benefits of participating in marching band.

some people claim that the only benefit of marching band is learning to play an instrument.

which rebuttal best addresses the counterclaim?

a: however, learning to play an instrument is not necessarily important for every student.
b: however, learning to play an instrument has been proven to improve grades and test performance.
c: however, most marching band members also get a great amount of exercise and establish lifelong friendships.
d: however, most marching band members learn to play only one instrument during their band years.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there the woods of spring are a-bloom, and the fragrant scent “he is i” is borne on the wind: there the bee of the heart is deeply immersed, and desires no other joy. in at least one hundred words, how does kabir express his belief in god in this excerpt from “tell me, o swan, your ancient tale”?

Chicago by carl sandburg hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification

The killing of a mockingbird: miss maudie says, “atticus finch is the same in his house as he is in public” (61). what evidence so far proves this true?