Read the excerpt from A Girl Named Zippy. One woman even said that Mooreland “is a long way to go not to be anywhere when you get there,” and yet I persisted.

The author includes this statement to show that

Mooreland is many miles from other cities.
many believe Mooreland doesn’t exist.
Mooreland is very small and plain.
there aren’t many ways to get to Mooreland.

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)

hello and welcome to the town of river dale. if you come to river-dale trust me you wouldn't want to leave.  

the answer is luis.

  someone can be considered a dynamic person by being energitic and forceful, but other aspects of being dynamic is having a lot of ideas and enthusiasm. luis his little brother with his homework, and later he teaches his younger brother how to ride a bike without training wheels, which takes a lot of patience, dedication and involvement.

even though there may be variations in human emotions over time, the poem “ a contribution to statistics” by wislawa symborska suggests that the only unchangeable characteristic is mortality.

the author poses a distinction between the approximate and non-approximate numbers which correspond to our need for certainty in life and the difficulty of achieving it. our efforts to measure the exact often fail because the world is not always clearly structured .the poem seems to imply   that the only thing that is certain and has an exact number is death.