Are the following sentences punctuated correctly with a semi-colon, colon, hyphen or dash?
11. Copland also founded ASCAP, the American Society of Composers- Authors, and Publishers.
12. ASCAP made it possible to be a composer: it set up royalty standards.
13. Copland was trained in Paris; despite that fact, he was all-American.
14. Copland is well- known for one piece: “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
15. In the ‘50s, Copland and Bernstein ran up against an antagonist McCarthy. 16. There were forty-five people in line at the store.
17. My father-in-law is an honest, trustworthy man.
18. She was a dependable, hard-working law student.
19. The expression carpe diem seize the day was written on the classroom wall.
20. Performing before a live audience: that’s what I love.

yes

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source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

answer: provide the speech

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so is this a rhetorical question?