Marcus's parents support him, even when he isn't able to his team secure the win. which of the following quotes provides the best evidence to support this statement? a) "you know that your mom and i always tell you that it's a privilege to be able to participate and represent your school." b) "he couldn't believe it was happening-the game's outcome hung in the balance, and he could be the hero! " c) "by gracefully accepting that bad call, you set a true example of sportsmanship." d) "coach and darryl walked away, and when darryl reached the dugout, he threw his hat on the ground in disgust."

elise is writing a literary analysis of a biographical essay about emily dickinson.

which of the following should elise use in order to provide a strong claim statement in the introduction to her analysis?

a.  

“a life apart” by julia golding maintains that emily dickenson wrote over a thousand poems during her life.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.