Read the following excerpts from two speeches on the same subject. The first is intended for an audience of community members, and the second is
an address to a government board.
1. Dear friends, the industrial plant upstream is slowly
poisoning our waters. It is causing illnesses among
our elderly. It is harming our children. What kind of
people are these? Do they not care when they see a
baby ill from the effects of drinking their poisoned
water supply? Who among us would do such a thing?
2. Honored leaders, laws exist to prevent the industrial
runoff that is causing illnesses to rise at a rate of five
percent each year. This plant is clearly making a
conscious decision to break the law, despite having a
clear understanding of the allowable levels of runoff
permitted by law.
What is one way that the speaker adjusts her first speech to make it suitable
for her second audience?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant