Read the passage and answer the question below. topic: organ donation specific purpose: to persuade my audience to donate their organs and tissues when they die and to act upon their decision to donate. thesis statement: the need is constantly growing for organ donors and it is very simple to be an organ donor when you die. i. introduction a. attention material/credibility material: how do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? what if it was something you couldn’t live without? well, my cousin was five years old when he found out he needed a new kidney. he went on the organ waiting list right away. he was called twice during a six month span that they had a kidney available only to find out that the kidney wasn’t a good match. he had to wait again. the third time was a charm. a small adult was in an accident and his kidney was a good match. this story had a happy ending but so many do not. b. tie to the audience: o

Read the passage from “the beginnings of the maasai.” now enkai lives at the top of mount kenya, and we maasai still live below, herding cattle down in the plains. it’s not a bad life, especially when enkai is the black god, providing for us. and when the cattle or other children cause problems, i just warn them that they never know when i might suddenly develop my godly powers. the main purpose of the passage is to illustrate the relationship between the maasai and a. mount kenya. b.the children. c. the cattle. d. their god.

Take a look at this dictionary entry. contest con • test (n.) kon-test [from anglo-french or latin] 1. a competition between rivals for a prize 2. a struggle for victory 3. a dispute; controversy (v.) kuhn-test 4. to fight for in a battle 5. to call into question

For each of the following quotations, identify the work in which it is found by writing the corresponding letter on the blank line. choices may be used more than once. (a) wordsworth (b) keats (c) tennyson (d) whitman (e) dickinson 20. "if this be but a vain belief ,yet,oh! how oft- in darkness and amid the many shapes of joyless daylight; " 21. "or like stout cortez when with eagle eyes he stared at the pacific - and all his men looked at each other with a wild surmise" 22. "there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; there gloom the dark board seas. my mariners, souls that have toiled, a wrought, and thought with me" 23. "i speak the pass-word primeval, i give that sign of democracy, by god! i will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpoint of on the same terms." 24. "we slowly drove he knew no haste and i had put away my labor and leisure too, for his civility" 25. "myself moving forward then and now and forever, gathering and showing more always and with velocity, infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them, not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancer," 26. "i cannot rest from travel; i will drink life to the lees. all times i have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those that love me and along," 27. "what mad pursuit what struggle to escape? what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy? "