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?

it is effective. it supports the claim clearly and logically.
it is emotional. it expresses personal feelings that cannot be backed with research.
it is irrelevant. it discusses a fact that is off topic and does not support the claim.
it is unverified. it does not cite a source to show where the information was located.

What is one advantage of listening to an audio recording as opposed to silently reading a play?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Discuss how hawthorne uses irony in "young goodman brown" to develop a theme or a character. your answer should be between 250 and 300 words.