In this activity, you’ll analyze Mark Twain’s essay “Taming the Bicycle.” You’ll determine the author’s main purpose and other purposes for writing the text, supporting your answers with evidence from the text. Then you’ll reflect on your choice of purposes. Finally, you will analyze the author’s point of view from the purposes you identified. Part A
In the table, list at least two purposes you identified in “Taming the Bicycle” and present supporting evidence from the text for each purpose. List the main purpose first

What does the term fiend not mean as it is used in the passage? a) beast b) brute c) fanatic d) savage

What argument did andrew jackson use t persude the people that the indian removal act was a good idea

Read the passage from a vindication of the rights of woman. that the society is formed in the wisest manner, whose constitution is founded on the nature of man, strikes, in the abstract, every thinking being so forcibly, that it looks like presumption to endeavour to bring forward proofs; though proof must be brought, or the strong hold of prescription will never be forced by reason; yet to urge prescription as an argument to justify the depriving men (or women) of their natural rights, is one of the absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense. does wollstonecraft maintain an objective tone in the passage? yes, because she uses objective language such as “society is formed in the wisest manner.” yes, because she uses objective language such as “it looks like presumption to endeavor.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “though proof must be brought, or the strong hold.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense.”