Coastal towns should protect themselves from floods by building sand walls that keep out water from oceans, lakes, and rivers. however, some say that these sand walls are an eyesore. they reduce the value of the homes and buildings that they try to protect because they look bad.
which statement presents the best rebuttal to address the counterclaim?

a) the value of the coastal homes is more important than oceans, lakes, and rivers.
b)the protection of homes and buildings in coastal towns with sand walls is important.
c) sand walls may be ugly, but the protection of people and property is more important.
d)people living along the coasts should seriously consider moving further inland.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.

What theme does don quixote's blunder about the windmill and his enthusiasm to fight the two monks he believes are "devilish and unnatural" suggest? a sense of earnest purpose can lead to impetuous behavior. true heroism fights without regard to personal expense fighting for justice inspires loyalty the average person gains by the efforts of a select few. next question ask for turn it in

Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” but mama, crying, told me that even if william armstrong lived, he would never do these things with me. he might not, she sobbed, even be “all there.” he might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds. what best describes the effect of the sensory imagery used in this excerpt? it allows the reader to correctly predict that doodle will never be able to walk. it the reader to better visualize the life that might lie ahead for doodle. it introduces the reader to the setting that exists throughout most of the story. it shows the reader to see that doodle’s mom is incapable of feeling hope.