Read this excerpt from The Circuit and answer the question. As the last days of August disappeared, so did the number of braceros. Sunday, only one--the best picker--came to work. I liked him. Sometimes we talked during our half-hour lunch break. That is how I found out he was from Jalisco, the same state in Mexico my family was from. That Sunday was the last time I saw him.

Why, most likely, does the author include this excerpt at the beginning of the story?

to foreshadow what happens at the end of the story
to minimize the surprise readers would otherwise feel to learn the family must move
to create tension about what happened to the narrator's friend
to serve as a flashback to a time when the narrator was in a better place

Read the extract below and identify the three kind(s) of bias that are apparent within it. despite being reintroduced in the 1600s by idle, muddle-headed aristocrats in order to be slaughtered for fun, all the wild boars that were brought to australia from the continent eventually died out. for the next 300 years there were no boars in australia, but in the 1980s farmers saw a chance to diversify and began to import and farm them. some of these beautiful, intelligent animals escaped and established herds of their own, once again living wild and purely natural lives. while their ideal home is in woodland, boars are hardy and are able to live in multiple habitats. a/ mistreatment of opposing views b/ positive stereotyping c/ subjective vocabulary d/ personal attacks e/statistics f/ corporate bias e/ negative stereotyping g/ offensive language

Examine the conflict of a popular film. in 7-10 sentences, explain how the writer/director crafts a story around that conflict and why it is engaging for an audience.

In large cities such as new york city, a majority of citizens often take public transportation and leave their cars at home what is wrong with this text and visual aid