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read the excerpt below from heifer international's website and answer the question that follows. when you volunteer with heifer international, you play a significant role in changing the lives of millions of people around the world. heifer works to end world hunger and poverty in a way that cares for the earth by providing sustainable gifts of livestock and agricultural training to people struggling for food and income. and that's where you come in. as a volunteer, you share heifer's mission and story, educating the public about hunger and poverty and generating financial support for our programs around the world. volunteer opportunities abound. download our heifer volunteer flier to us spread the word about heifer's volunteer opportunities. browse our current learning center residential volunteer positions and apply online or follow the links below to learn more about heifer's volunteering opportunities as a community volunteer or learning center volunteer. source: "volunteer." heifer. org. heifer international, n. d. web. 27 apr. 2011. what is the author's primary purpose in writing this passage?
to persuade to entertain to record to teach

Marvell's poem is in fact an argument consisting of three logically related points. in at least 150 words, identify each point and trace the speaker's argument from proposition to conclusion. you may find it to identify the transitional word or phrase that marks the beginning of each part of the argument. support your analysis of the argument with details from the poem.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Ron and nick chose to start their own businesses. ron wanted to start an ice cream shop, and nick wanted to launch a television manufacturing company. ron and nick had equal amounts of funds on hand and no government regulations restricting them. months later, however, ron has already set up his business, while nick is still struggling to raise additional funds to build a factory. what was the main factor that affected nick’s business? a. an irrelevant business idea b. low demand for tvs in his country c. high start-up costs d. lack of labor economics