Read this passage: as of 1973, the u. s. had a population of 210 million people, who were increasing by 0.8 percent per year. outside our lifeboat, let us imagine another 210 million people (say the combined populations of colombia, ecuador, venezuela, morocco, pakistan, thailand and the philippines) who are increasing at a rate of 3.3 percent per year. put differently, the doubling time for this aggregate population is 21 years, compared to 87 years for the u. s. why does the author present these statistics? a. he is appealing to the audience's emotions. b. he is appealing to the audience's sense of humor. c. he is trying to establish his importance as a trusted writer. d. he is appealing to the audience's sense of logic.

sight: watching a movie

touch: petting a dog

smell: smelling dinner

hearing: listening to music

taste: eating pizza

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing