Read this excerpt from When Birds Get Flu and Cows Go Mad! by John DiConsiglio. A Modern Pandemic During the past 25 years, AIDS has spread throughout the world. The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981. Since then, the disease has become a pandemic. Now there are nearly 40 million people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Africa is the hardest-hit continent. More than 60 percent of all the people in the world with HIV live there. But no region has been spared. Why does the author conclude the article with this passage?
a. to contrast current events with past events
b. to place a spotlight on the African continent
c. to place emphasis on what is happening now
d. to compare AIDS to diseases mentioned earlier

Study the poster created by the new hampshire committee on public safety during world war i.which persuasive techniques does the poster include? select two options.transferfaulty logicbandwagonglittering generalitiesfear

This is the noun or pronoun to which a pronoun refers.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile