"(1) Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been working to protect the environment from the negative effects of manufacturing. (2) Industrial processes use massive amounts of energy and create harmful waste in the process, making them an ecological nightmare. (3) Some proposed solutions to this excessive waste do exist, but manufacturing systems need to be entirely rethought to best align with both human and environmental interests. (4) Closed-loop manufacturing is the only solution." The writer wants to change the underlined portion of sentence 4 (reproduced below) to qualify the passage’s primary claim and express it in less absolute terms.
Closed-loop manufacturing is the only solution.
Which of the following choices best accomplishes this goal?

A. poses the only potential answer
B. provides the most obvious solution
C. enables the single feasible solution
D. represents one effective solution
E. continues to be the best answer

Read the excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. which choice best describes the purpose of this text? to persuade readers to oppose the censorship of literature to inform readers about censorship in a specific country to entertain readers with stories about censorship to motivate readers to speak out against censorship mark this and return

You visit two websites about inventions of the 21st century. one has .edu in the url address and the other has .com. which site is more likely to be credible and why? (6 points) select one: a. the .edu site is more likely to be credible because all .com sites are trying to sell you something. b. the .edu site is more likely to be credible because its domain is a university or other school type. c. the .com site is more likely to be credible because all .edu sites are personal college student blogs. d. the .com site is more likely to be credible because its owners review all the content before publishing.

Throughout the memoir, the prisoners are made equal in the way they are treated, and again, eliezer sees their equality in another way. how does he describe the equality?