Which sentence is the best hook for a speech persuading a community to build a skate park?
a surfing was popular in the 1950s, and skating developed as a land version of surfing.
bdid you know that skateboarding has become one of the three most popular participation sports in the us?
c public parks are preserved natural land funded by town and local governments for public use.
d what are the most common injuries associated with the sport of skating or skateboarding?

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.