Tom Sawyer avoids making a request or a demand on his friends, but he does use argumentative techniques to persuade them to help him. Write a letter from Tom Sawyer’s point of view trying to persuade a neighbor to hire him for a whitewashing job. Use dramatic irony to create humor in your letter. Include some figurative language and an allusion as well. (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Chapter 2)

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed