Review the scenario. karen is developing an argument paper in which she proposes that a school budget surplus be spent on upgrading the equipment in the school computer lab.
which statement best expresses her main claim?
a. last week, i tried to use the computer lab at school but was confronted with broken keyboards, printers, and an internet connection that was slower than a turtle.
b. the school budget surplus should be spent on upgrading the equipment in the school computer lab because an up-to-date computer lab will have the greatest positive impact on the student learning.
c. some believe that the school budget surplus should be spent on new textbooks, but i think it should be spent on a new computer lab.
d. many parents and students agree that anew computer lab is the best way to spend the budget surplus.

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