Budget: To determine your budget, do some online research. Find three comparable pieces to what you will create and average the costs. You should find the items in the kinds of stores where you imagine your outfit being sold. Don’t forget to include in your searches the part of the outfit that you are going to make so that you can determine its retail value. Once you have found the retail cost of your items, you need to factor in the mark-up, the profit that retailers build into the costs of their clothes. When you have the retail cost of your outfit, subtract 20 percent to determine the budget for the cost of your items. For example, if the retail cost is $220, assume that the mark-up accounts for $44 (20 percent) of the price. That would make your budget $176 ($220-$44=$176). Setting a strict budget will not only help you distinguish between needs and wants, but also to be realistic in your planning because money is always an object.(fashion class)

Read this excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.”tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. which of these changes would make this excerpt more argumentative? using words that affect the audience’s sense of trustusing less repetition of certain words and phrasesincluding words that address logic and reasonincluding words that are charged with emotion