In asia, where palm trees are non-native, the trees’ flowers have traditionally been pollinated by hand, which has kept palm fruit productivity unnaturally low. when weevils known to be efficient pollinators of palm flowers were introduced into asia in 1980, palm fruit productivity increased—by up to 50 percent in some areas—but then decreased sharply in 1984.which of the following statements, if true, would best explain the 1984 decrease in productivity? (a) prices for palm fruit fell between 1980 and 1984 following the rise in production and a concurrent fall in demand.(b) imported trees are often more productive than native trees because the imported ones have left behind their pests and diseases in their native lands.(c) rapid increases in productivity tend to deplete trees of nutrients needed for the development of the 'fruit producing female flowers.(d) the weevil population in asia remained at approximately the same level between 1980 and 1984.(e) prior to 1980 another species of insect pollinated the asian palm trees, but not as efficiently as the species of weevil that was introduced in 1980.

Athesis statement is not a. a question; it is your answer to a research question that you will address in your essay b. your position on a topic you will address in your persuasive essay c. about the topic of your persuasive essay. it is about the opposite position

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)

Read the following passage and answer the question. this clumsy living that moves lumberingas if in ropes through what is not donereminds us of the awkward way the swan walks. describe the meaning of this quote in at least 150 words.