An author claims that "athletes caught using performance-enhancing drugs should be sentenced to prison." the author provides the following reason as support:
last year, 709 citizens were caught using steroids. 403 were put in jail. in the same period of time, 120 professional athletes were caught using steroids. none of them was sent to prison. there is no reason why athletes should not be punished just like everyone else.
which choice best describes the reason the author provides?
a. it is effective. it supports the claim clearly and logically.
b. it is emotional. it expresses personal feelings that cannot be backed with research.
c. it is irrelevant. it discusses a fact that is off topic and does not support the claim.
d. it is unverified. it does not cite a source to show where the information was located.

Do not use this medicine with milk, cheese, or other dairy products. what end punctuation needs to be added to the above bolded word?

Which two types of poetry focus on the poet's experiences? a. sonnet and tanka b. tanka and haiku c. haiku and lyric poetry d. lyric poetry and sonnet

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion