-. The author's purpose in writing, “The Many Ways Virtual Communities Impact Our World Offline" is to
a. Convince skeptics to take part in at least one virtual community in order to experience an
important twenty-first century phenomenon.
b. Explore the connections between the virtual world and the physical world and to raise some
questions about how each affects the other.
c. Outline some key research studies that demonstrate how socially isolated and/or
handicapped people can use the Internet to join virtual communities.
d. Criticize the people who spend too much time online instead of taking part in community or
volunteer activities.

Which statement from "letter to his father" is similar to gregor's inability tocommunicate with his father as a bug in the metamorphosis?

The students who were in favor of adopting the new curriculum wrote editorials for their local newspaper which of these best describes how the information in the editoralw is different from the information in the feature story

Returning from vietnam, we were indeed given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. what is one way the author's use of language contributes to the tone of this passage? a. the use of figurative language creates a feeling of resentment. b. the phrase "hot, angry tangle" is used sarcastically to create irony. c. the word "parade" is used sarcastically to create a lighthearted mood. d. the parallelism draws attention to the confusion of those returning.