Ten Ways We Get the Odds Wrong by Maia Szalavitz 1. Szalavitz states her thesis at the end of paragraph 4. What information does she present in her first four paragraphs? Would readers be able to understand her thesis without this information? Explain.

2. What preconceived ideas does Szalavitz assume her readers have about risk? How can you tell?

3. What is Szalavitz’s purpose in writing this essay? To inform readers? To persuade them? Or does she have some other purpose in mind?

4. Szalavitz’s essay appeared in Psychology Today, a publication aimed at readers who are interested in psychology. How would Szalavitz have to revise this essay to make it appeal to readers with more general interests?

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.

As night falls, how many men are left standing on the battlefield? question 15 options: arthur alone, modred, and one of modred’s best knights modred, arthur, and two of arthur’s followers only arthur and modred only modred

Look at this photograph of a klondike gold rush camp. what would you find challenging about being in this type of environment? check all that apply. the extreme cold the steep climbs over the mountain the thick covering of snow the cramped living conditions the harsh winds