In the persuasive essay "A Cat Is Not a Can of Soup," the author's claim is "Adopting a pet from the Ferndale Shelter is often a wiser move than buying one."

Which statement supports the author's claim?

These shop owners may buy dogs from puppy mills, businesses that turn out puppies as if they actually were cans of soup.

According to Toni, 25 percent of their cats and dogs are undoubtedly purebreds.

During my visit to the shelter, I learned that its two paid staff members and 13 volunteers spend time with every animal.

Also, they will not allow any pet to leave the shelter until it has had its shots and has been neutered.

8. "caged bird" right now, i feel like a bird caged without a key everyone comes to stare at me with so much joy and reverie they don't know how i feel inside through my smile, i cry they don't know what they're doing to me keeping me from flying that's why i say i know why the caged bird sings only joy comes from song she's so rare and beautiful to others why not just set her free? so she can fly, fly, fly spreading her wings and her song let her fly, fly fly for the whole world to see she's like caged bird fly, fly ooh just let her fly just let her fly just let her fly spread the wings spread the beauty what is the allusion found in the poem? question 8 options: a) alicia keys b) i know why the caged bird sings c) spreading her wings and her song d) fly, fly, fly

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed

What is an octave? the fourteen lines that make up the italian sonnet the first eight lines of an italian sonnet the last six lines of an italian sonnet