What is the author's purpose (to persuade, entertain, inform) explain in one sentence why A speech written by a professional athlete listing the negative effects of steroids and urging young athletes to not use steroids

Which two of these excerpts from homer’s odyssey depict the gods’ involvement in mortal affairs?

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "

What is the author's purpose in both patrick henry's speech and thomas paines common sense