What is the purpose of this passage? A rooftop garden is easy to grow. It requires some preparation, but once you have soil and plants in place, caring for it requires little work. The benefits are many. Rooftop gardens can provide city dwellers with fresh vegetables in the summer, as well as a beautiful place to relax. Rooftop gardens also have environmental benefits. They can help cool a city in the summer and can help reduce pollution. If you live in an apartment, consider planting your own rooftop garden. You won’t regret it.

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir