Try to identify the author’s claim as you read this passage. The most interesting do-it-yourself-trend in recent years may be that of keeping chickens as pets—not in an agricultural or rural setting, but rather in a typical suburban neighborhood, in the backyard. It’s not as hard as you may think, and start-up costs are surprisingly low.

What is the author’s claim in this argument?

Keeping chickens in your backyard is a crazy new trend.

Chickens make better pets than most other farm animals.

Chickens are cleaner and less noisy than most people think they are.

City chicken-farming is easier and less expensive than most people think.

Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt from "that spot" by jack london? i don’t think much of stephen mackaye any more, though i used to swear by him. i know that in those days i loved him more than my own brother. if ever i meet stephen mackaye again, i shall not be responsible for my actions. it passes beyond me that a man with whom i shared food and blanket, and with whom i mushed over the chilcoot trail, should turn out the way he did. i always sized steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. i shall never trust my judgment in men again. why, i nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the stewart; and he saved my life on the little salmon. and now, after the years we were together, all i can say of stephen mackaye is that he is the meanest man i ever knew. a. excited b. ironic c. indignant d. playful

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?

Complete the sentence. there are progressive verb forms in english. four six twelve eight