My mom gave me a kool action game for my birthday on october 27, 2010, and i was so excited. when i opened it, i could see that parts were missing, so we went back to the store and tried to return it. they said tough luck and wouldn't even talk to us. now, i'm writing to you to try and get my money back so i can get something else for my birthday that actually works. mom said it cost $109.99, but we spent a lot of time trying to get it returned, so i think you should send me at leat $125.00. besides, it was for my birthday! the passage above is excerpted from the body of a letter of complaint.
which statement evaluates the effectiveness of this passage best?
a)the letter is well written, using appropriate tone and specific details.
b)the tone of the letter is too informal and lacks details needed for a good resolution.
c)the writer should be given more money because it was a birthday gift.
d)the letter is effective in its tone but lacks specific details.

Select the rebuttal statement that best refutes the viewpoint in section one. a) it is necessary to oversee the athletes involved in mixed martial arts. b) it is unnecessary to oversee the athletes involved in mixed martial arts. c) it is necessary for athletes involved in mixed martial arts to self-regulate. d) one distinctive feature of mixed martial arts is the combination of various techniques.

What does the video on the wilderness downtown website incorporate to create the end product?

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)