My stomach feels like it’s tightening into a tiny little ball. i feel like throwing up. i keep thinking that i’ll get laughed at the minute i step off the bus. instead, i’m greeted by a couple of my friends who were in my english class last year. at that point, it hits me. ms. gruwell, my crazy english teacher from last year, is really the only person who made me think of hope for my future. talking with my friends about our english class and the adventures we had the year before, i began to feel better . . i receive my class schedule and the first teacher on the list is ms. gruwell in room 203. i walk in the room and i feel as though all the problems in my life are not important anymore. i am home. based on this excerpt, what is the author’s purpose for writing? to persuade to teach to heal to entertain

Yes or no ? a philanthropist is stingy and greedy.

On a scale 1 to 10 how responsible are you? explain your answer

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man