The writer is trying to improve cohesion in the paragraph below. Which words or phrases would best connect the ideas presented? Visual social media platforms and cell phone makers offer applications and tools that allow teenage users the abilities to manipulate their
appearances. Users can alter their appearances by adding physical features such as beauty marks and freckles or by removing those very
same features and others such as a birth mark or a blemish. What message are these makers sending? What type of thinking are they
promoting? However v teens argue that these tools and applications are used for fun, research conducted by three leading universities
found that these tools hinder teen productivity and lower their self-esteem.
v. In an article written by two prominent
psychologists, software that allows people to alter their appearances send the message that something is wrong with an Individual's
original appearance. They went on to add that these applications and tools can lead to illnesses that impact people's physical and social
well-being.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds.beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. as the green smoke arose, their faces flashed out pallid green, and faded again as it vanished. then slowly the hissing passed into a humming, into a long, loud, droning noise. slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattered group of men. it was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. it was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.then, by the light of their own destruction, i saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.which options accurately describe how the author develops the plot in the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction decreases the tension in the plot because the narrator is simply standing by.the narrator does not react at first as he watches the men with the flag and hears the sounds in the pit. his inaction keeps the tension steadily increasing as the narrator comes to realize the men are being killed.the narrator is distracted by his own observations of the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he doesn't react as quickly as he should when the men are killed, thus extending the tension in the plot.the narrator is attentive to the men with the white flag and the humming sound, so he immediately understands what has happened when the men are killed, increasing the tension in the plot.

Read the passage. which statement would be the best summary to give the argument meaningful context? a. the passage is fine the way it is. b.th word "debate" should be removed, because it indicates disagreement. c. the word "claim" should be removed because this is not the claim. d. the sentence that begins " i personally believe" should be removed because it shows bias.

In this paragraph the author uses a real life example to demonstrate how do cryptography a. can the government. b. can be dangerous. c. is a swiss specialty d. is unreasonable expensive