What is the author’s purpose for writing this particular passage?
A) to aid scientists on the cause and the effects of the avian flu
B) to warn the public how devastating the avian flu could potentially be if or when it arrives in the United States
C) to boast about how much the U. S. government is donating to the cause for the sake of ’good P. R.’ (personal relations)
D) to announce the efforts being made by the U. S. government to help other international agencies in the fight against this serious social epidemic

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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because they were not just any seashells they were sally's seashells

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