We are currently designing three new product lines for 2014: picnic tables, lawn chairs, and benches. These products are comfortable and beautifully designed. We intend to have them ready for production by June. These products have been met with positive reviews from our test customers, and we believe they will increase our profit margin by another 25 percent. [4] We will have our sample products from the new lines in our showroom next week. I am eager to show you how beautiful they are. You are invited to be our special guest for a product launch party on May 22; I will phone you on Friday, May 16, to confirm that you will attend. Sincerely yours, Joseph Pelletier

What is effective about the opening of this message? Check all that apply.
A. Gains attention
B. Uses a direct pattern
C. Uses an interesting fact
D. Sounds preachy or parental

Which of the following is an example of an author’s purpose for using first-person point of view?

Malcolm x's attitude towards the dictionary could best be described as a) apathetic b) dumbfounded c) awestruck d) disinterested

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next