Recently an influential auto safety group has
called for states to increase the legal driving
age from sixteen to seventeen or even
eighteen in order to decrease teen traffic
accidents and fatalities. In response to the
auto safety group, your state government has
crafted a bill to increase the driving age in
your state to eighteen. Write a carefully
worded e-mail to persuade your state senator
or state representative to either pass or turn
down this bill
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Why does henry david thoreau think imprisonment is ineffective?

Read the excerpt from "the blackfeet creation." how do readers know that this excerpt is from a myth? the excerpt describes an animal called a muskrat. the excerpt describes old man drying the mud. the excerpt describes old man scattering mud over water. the excerpt describes how muskrat create land.

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.