In paragraph seven, President Obama says that the American energy policy “is creating jobs and leading to a cleaner, safer planet.” If you were writing an analysis of this speech, which of the following pieces of textual evidence could you cite to best support his statement?

A.) “The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working...”
B.) “Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas.
C.) “When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars.”
D.) “Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can't be outsourced.”

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader

well, there are online sites that can make it look like a texting screenshot, so u can make it like hamilton texting jefferson through that, and he can start with him being like, i know it's out of the blue, but blah blah blah