Excerpt from The Star-Spangled Banner By: Joanne Quaglia

On board the British flagship, the officers were kind to Key and Skinner and agreed to the release of Key's friend on the condition that the three men wait until the Battle of Baltimore ended before returning home. The officers placed Key and his friends back on their boat in Battimore Harbor, where they anxiously waited for the skirmish to end. From a distance of approximately eight miles, the three men observed the British attack on Fort McHenry.

I’m this passage, the word skirmish means

A) appearance.
B) Flight.
C) History.
D) Location.

How and why does king use the word redemptive to link the concepts of freedom and religious faith

Which important event occurred during the industrial and scientific revolutions

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