What is the author’s purpose for writing this passage? A: inform you about the purposes of strip mining

B: describe a new business called terracide

C: define the meaning of the word terracide

D: persuade you that strip mining harms the environment

What is the author's main purpose for including this sentence:

The land is left wasted and allowed to slide down upon houses and into streams, making the land unlivable and the stream water undrinkable.

A: To explain the negatve imapcts of strip mining on the environment

B: To show the causes of strip mining in an environment

C: To explain that negative impacts of strip mining that rarely occur

D: To explain the benefits of terracide to the environment

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

How does the authors discussion of sujatha baliga's own experiences with abuse and forgiveness contribute to the text

Read the excerpt. “this is a train-servicing station and we have to wait for a train.” he shakes his head. i smile. “it’d be nice if we could get one.” lauren mizock has revised her draft of “train tracks” to convey plot events using