Claim: laptops should be given to all high school students.

counterclaim: laptops are expensive and would stretch the budgets of already underfunded schools.

which example addresses this counterclaim in a civil way?

a. school districts should really care more about their students' needs and spend money on more important things.

b. it's true that laptops are expensive, but the benefits they provide for student learning far outweigh any initial costs.

c. laptops are an integral part of school, and anyone who thinks differently doesn't know what they're talking about.

d. people who think laptops are too expensive don't really care about how well students are educated.

Which of the following are historical events that likely influenced the writing of “the second coming”? select all that apply.

Cite evidence what moment might be called the climax, or highest point of tension, in act v? what is clear to the audience and to macbeth at this point?

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.