PART A: What is the author's purpose in this text? A to bring attention to a new understanding of how social problems
behave and how they might be improved
B to encourage conservative politicians not to cut funding on projects
that don't appear to be working
C to remind people of the influences that tipping points have on social
problems so they can prevent them from happening
D to reassure people that most social problems don't need interference
and will eventually resolve themselves

Jackson is a very smart little boy he can count to twenty and is only two years old. complete, run on sentence or comma splice

Read this excerpt from wheels of change by sue macy.that said, it's hard to grasp the full extent of the bicycle's impact on americans in the late 19th century—particularly female americans. imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. how suffocated women must have felt. and how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons.what is the central idea of the excerpt

On one hand, i aspire to an ivy league vocation: 1 professor of the sciences in higher education. 2 but like noble amphibians that thrive on land and in the stream, 3 i've got another world of which i like to gladly dream. 4 some say that it's abnormal; my affections are exclusive. 5 in science, they say, emotions are something quite elusive. 6 line 3 exemplifies which kind of figurative language? a) hyperbole b) metaphor c) onomatopoeia d) simile