In paragraph seven, President Obama says that the American energy policy “is creating jobs and leading to a cleaner, safer planet.” If you were writing an analysis of this speech, which of the following pieces of textual evidence could you cite to best support his statement?

A.) “The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working...”
B.) “Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas.
C.) “When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars.”
D.) “Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can't be outsourced.”

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.