PLEASE HELP. (any other article read on edgenuity for ap lang) Prompt:
Imitation Exercise Essay: Select one of the previously read passages from your text to copy and then write a passage of your own
imitating the voice, rhetorical style and vocabulary of the author. As you write, remember that essays will be graded with a six-point
rubric based on the AP nine-point scale High-scoring essays will demonstrate that the writer considered the prompt carefully and
responded to it insightfully with strong supporting evidence. These essays will also exhibit stylistic sophistication, including purposeful
organization, precise diction, and engaging syntax Whether or not the essay is timed, conforming to the conventions of standard
American English is expected. You may use any of the tools available to you, such the Checklist Spellchecker, or Graphic Organizer

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

i'm not sure what the second paragraph is but a decree is an official order issued by legal authority. find the one that best fits this definition.