You are the only survivor on a ship which is sinking off the coast of a deserted tropical island in the Pacific. You have time to save only five items from the following list to take with you to the island. i. a religious text
ii. a battery operated radio receiver
iii. a first aid kit
iv. rifle and ammunition
v. a box of canned food
vi. a package of your favourite books
vii. writing paper and pens
viii. knife
ix. a compass
x. matches
xi. an axe
xii. ropes
Describe which five items you would take and give reasons for choosing
them.
Word Limit(220-250)

When greg came home for lunch, he realized that his air conditioner was broken. fragment, run on or complete sentence?

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

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