2. PART B: Which TWO quotes from the text best support the answer to Part A?
A "I actually came up with this idea when I was in eighth
grade." ( Paragraph 7)
B "And I'd play certain chords or notes and I noticed that
the banjo strings would resonate and so I thought, hey, maybe I can use this principle to detect buried mines."(Paragraph 7)
C "Yeah. Well, actually, I do have real land mine casings
without the explosives to test with. I also used - I made
mock land mines out of candy tins and filled them with
RTV silicone rubber and tested those." ( Paragraph 14)
D "many people your age are not especially interested
and let alone aware of land mines!" (Paragraph 21)
E "I'm kind of lucky because both of my parents are
scientists." ( Paragraph 22)
F "Ieventually ended up going with music because I was
a section leader" ( Paragraph 25)

Awriter wants to develop an argument on the following topic: the voting age write a claim and counterclaim based on this topic. clearly identify your claim and counterclaim.

Which two of these excerpts from homer’s odyssey depict the gods’ involvement in mortal affairs?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant