Review the passage from "say no to library cuts."
while it is true that the city has to cut the budget, the city does not have to take the funds from the library. the library plays too great a role in our community. instead of reducing the budget for the library, the mayor could delay for one year the proposed changes to the city's recycling program.
which best identifies the purpose of the boldfaced text?
(a) to introduce the essay and state the main claim
(b) to emphasize the opposition's refutations
(c) to emphasize the opposing position
(d) to refute the counterclaim

Is "they" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?

Me? which of the following describes theodore roosevelt’s ideas about the role of the government? a) to keep the powerful from taking advantage of small business owners b) to all citizens get rich and to take care of the lazy c) to break all company trusts because all big businesses wanted to bully the smaller ones d) to close off all wild lands and leave them untouched