My cousin Bob works as a mechanic at Oil Changers and he says that renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, aren't going to provide any help in fixing our nation's energy crisis.

A) Bandwagon: arguments urging you to follow the same path that everyone else is taking. This technique is commonly used to sway teens and voters.

B) Ad Hominem: In Latin, this means to the man. When you attach a person’s character instead of the quality of his/her ideas. Tu quoque is a specific type of ad hominem when you basically call someone a hypocrite instead of debating his/her ideas.

C) Slippery Slope: Exaggeration ir the likely consequences of an action, designed to show that a misstep today could result in a disaster.

D) Appeal to False Authority: Presenting an unqualified person or institution as a source of credible information.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

Attempting to transcend her condition the author tries to focus on nature as she lies limpin the dirt (lines 46-78).what does she realize about the earth and sky as she lies there

What are the effects of parallel structure in this excerpt? check all that apply. it adds emphasis to the verbs that describe the british government’s oppression. it uses repetition to add power to the colonists’ growing list of grievances. it stresses jefferson’s list of grievances, giving the reader a sense of the amount of time the colonists have been oppressed. it emphasizes that all of these acts were carried out by the same person.