What is the Claim. Evidence Reasoning

By asking each political party in every state to include one man and one
woman on its ticket for Senate races, the US government would help
close the gender gap in the Senate. According to the Center for American
Women and Politics, only 21% of US Senate seats were occupied by
women in 2017. A study conducted by Political Parity, a nonpartisan
organization, shows that the biggest barriers blocking women from
running for Senate are fundraising needs and the parties' perceived
preference for male candidates. Clearly, requiring political parties to
support female candidates for the Senate would help create a
government that more fairly represents American women.

Answer:

The claim of the paragraph seems to be how the US government can help close the gender gap in the Senate and what the gap is caused by and what will come of getting rid of that gap.

Some evidence is the first sentence, which it says "the US government would help  close the gender gap in the Senate". Also, it has statistical evidence, such as "only 21% of US Senate seats were occupied by  women in 2017." that tell more of the gender gap, along with "A study conducted by Political Parity, a nonpartisan  organization, shows that the biggest barriers blocking women from  running for Senate are fundraising needs and the parties' perceived  preference for male candidates.". And then, to tell what will become of America be removing that gap, it says "requiring political parties to

support female candidates for the Senate would help create a

government that more fairly represents American women.".

Explanation:

I was never the best at identifying claims, but I did my best. Hope this helps.

we (mustn't - don't have to) go to school as its a public holiday​

A camper uses a campfire to melt a marshmallow. Which form of energy produced by the burning wood in the campfire melts the camper’s marshmallow?

read the paragraph. choose the best meaning of she could't put her finger on it

The 9th Symphony was the last symphony that Beethoven wrote.
True or false?
(Beethoven lives upstairs)

Based on the following excerpt from O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi,” which statement about Della is most likely true?

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it.

A.
Della is upset because her house is in shabby condition for Christmas.
B.
Della is angry at herself for lying to the butcher to save some extra money.
C.
Della is ashamed because she cheated the local vegetable man out of money.
D.
Della is sad because she doesn’t have enough money to buy Christmas presents.

Activity #2

Read the following poem, You Begin, by Margaret Atwood.

WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST
You Begin
by Margaret Atwood

You begin this way:
this is your hand,
this is your eye,
that is a fish, blue and flat
on the paper, almost
the shape of an eye.
This is your mouth, this is an O
or a moon, whichever
you like. This is yellow.

Outside the window
is the rain, green
because it is summer, and beyond that
the trees and then the world,
which is round and has only
the colors of these nine crayons.

This is the world, which is fuller
and more difficult to learn than I have said.
You are right to smudge it that way
with the red and then
the orange: the world burns.

Once you have learned these words
you will learn that there are more
words than you can ever learn.
The word hand floats above your hand
like a small cloud over a lake.
The word hand anchors
your hand to this table,
your hand is a warm stone
I hold between two words.

This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world,
which is round but not flat and has more colors
than we can see.

It begins, it has an end,
this is what you will
come back to, this is your hand.

The end

1. how is this description different from saying simply that the hand is warm?
2. How is this description different from saying the hand is like a warm stone?

5) A story about a student's overseas travels has shifting points of view. Throughout,
the reader keeps encountering the words "The lingering scent of mint." These words could be helping to create a ____.
mood
paradox
synecdoche
characterization
paradox

What part of speech is the infinitive phrase used as in this sentence? As.4
*.the wind rose and the waves came rushing in, I ran to find shelter
a. noun
b. adjective
c. adverb
d. verb
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Commonlit Raising elephants please help just need the written response ​

What is the primary purpose of the couplet in this
sonnet?
Abel
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, restive Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make Time's spoils despised every where.
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;
So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
-"Sonnet 100,"
William Shakespeare
The purpose is to show the poet's belief in a grim
reaper who wields a scythe.
The purpose is to complete the 14 lines required to
make the poem a sonnet.
The purpose is to add a twist to the ideas about time
described in the three quatrains.
The purpose is to inspire a poem that will help the
speaker's beloved become famous and live forever.
Done
Intro

Match these vocabulary terms with their definitions. Match the items in the left column to the items in the right column.
1. acting suddenly with little thought; impulsive livelihood
2. lack of firmness of purpose; changeableness impetuous
3. means of providing for cost of living tedious
4. the quality of being persistent in the face of difficulties stamina
5. endurance; resistance to fatigue zealot
6. tiresome; boring; irksome instability
7. one of a Jewish sect who struggled openly against Roman rule persevera

Ill give brainleist! Which sentence uses correct subject-verb agreement? Select one: 1 The color of her eyes change at different times. 2 Many varieties of rice is sold at the store. 3 The list of students attending the trip is on the desk. 4 The children and the babysitter wants to take a nap.​

Objects are often given symbolic meaning. write three words that the picture might symbolize in the text box.

Read the excerpt from "On Becoming an Inventor" by Dean Kamen.

My next challenge was that I wanted to make things out of metal, so I became interested in how to use a lathe, a milling machine, and so on. I went to buy this new equipment I thought I'd need and met a man who had a machine shop of his own who was about to retire and move to Florida. He allowed me to visit him after school and on weekends to observe how he used all his tools. I was hooked. When he retired I bought not only all his big equipment but all his little toolboxes as well--they were treasures!

I decided to put his entire machine shop in our basement, but there were two problems... One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine, weighing two thousand pounds, could be carried into the basement. I solved this problem by hiring a contractor to dig a large hole, break open a wall of the basement, enclose the addition with concrete, and add a roof that could be used for building an outside deck to the house. I also enlarged my mother's kitchen and pantry. I now had the entire machine shop in our basement. At the time I was making enough money from my electronic devices to pay for all of this.

Which detail best supports Kamen’s opinion that he was hooked on making things out of metal?

He allowed me to visit him after school and on weekends to observe how he used all his tools.
When he retired I bought not only all his big equipment but all his little toolboxes as well—they were treasures!
One, his shop wouldn't fit in our basement, and two, there was no way the lathe, weighing fifteen hundred pounds, and the milling machine . . . could be carried into the basement.
At the time I was making enough money from my electronic devices to pay for all of this.

Natures first green is gold ( rewrite of Zukasama's poem )
Her hardest hue to hold is that of what the sun hasn’t sold. her leaf’s sprout a flower but it was only so an hour but life begun the leaf dies as dose a part of Eden, as dawn goes to day nothing gold able to stay the sun sucking life from green gardens the waters churning as it tares the lands beauty away the storm makes the land baron the beauty no longer there to stay for the sun is jealous of his power being taken away and in anger strips it away, until the cycle turns again, until natures first green is gold once again one new day

Based on information in Text 1, which sentence states the author's primary claim?
A. The main reason schools should adjust start times is to save money on transportation.
B. Students in elementary school also benefit from changing school start times because they have more
energy in the morning.
C. An increasing body of research supports the idea that starting school later in the day has significant
benefits for teenagers.
D. Teenagers miss fewer classes when they begin school later in the day.

Which terrestrial biome has a layer of frozen soil called permafrost that doesn't allow larger
vegetation to grow there?

Which sentence would be the best closing sentence in the paragraph below?
A good piano is a work of art, so it must be taken care of. It must be polished regularly and tuned at least yearly. If a piano is not
tuned, it will eventually be lower in pitch than it was originally
OA. Other instruments, such as guitars and cellos, must also be tuned regularly.
OB. Keep the lid of the piano closed to minimize dirt falling into the case.
OC. Many piano manufacturers advise against a regular furniture polish.
OD. Tuning may cost some money, but maintaining your instrument is important.

What are the 4 different types of analogies?​

Which sentence from the paragraph has been revised correctly? Even though, my life is very busy, I spend as much time as I can with my family. I often ask my dad who is an excellent athlete, to play soccer with me. I also enjoy taking walks, baking desserts, and playing cards, with my mom. However, nothing is better than watching movies with my loyal black cat, Max.

Which two sentences in these excerpts from Kate Chopin’s “The Locket” reflect the theme of holding on to love despite time and distance.

The letter had made Edmond heart sick and home sick. He stretched himself on his back and looked straight up at the blinking stars. But he was not thinking of them nor of anything but a certain spring day when the bees were humming in the clematis; when a girl was saying goodbye to him. He could see her as she unclasped from her neck the locket which she fastened about his own. It was an old fashioned golden locket bearing miniatures of her father and mother with their names and the date of their marriage. It was her most precious earthly possession.

…

Octavie wore a plain black dress, severe in its simplicity. A narrow belt held it at the waist and the sleeves were gathered into close fitting wristbands. She had discarded her hoopskirt and appeared not unlike a nun. Beneath the folds of her bodice nestled the old locket. She never displayed it now. It had returned to her sanctified in her eyes; made precious as material things sometimes are by being forever identified with a significant moment of one's existence.

…

Octavie felt as if she had passed into a stage of existence which was like a dream, more poignant and real than life. There was the old gray house with its sloping eaves. Amid the blur of green, and dimly, she saw familiar faces and heard voices as if they came from far across the fields, and Edmond was holding her. It was as if the spirit of life and the awakening spring had given back the soul to her youth and bade her rejoice.

Why doesn’t Eliezer’s father ant him to study mysticism at such a young age? Highlight the correct answer.
a. He believes that Moishe the beadle is a disreputable influence on Eliezer.
b. Eliezer’s father is not a practicing Jew himself and questions all religion.
c. He wants his son to study the basics of Judaism before entering “a world fraught with peril.”
d. He is afraid that Eliezer will embrace the socialism of the Nazis.

Need help .,. !!!!!!! Which phrase from the story shows that Zarqa is excited about how the water drum worked

Based on the excerpt, which best describes Dicey's
mood?
Read the excerpt from Homecoming
At half past eight, Dicey herded everybody back into the
mall, to use the bathrooms they had found earlier. Later,
Sammy and Maybeth fell asleep easily, curled up along
the back seat. James moved up to the front with Dicey.
Dicey couldn't see how they were both to sleep in the
front seat, but she supposed they would manage it.
James sat stiftly, gripping the wheel. James had a
narrow head and sharp features, a nose that pointed out,
pencil-thin eyebrows, a narrow chin. Dicey studied him
in the darkening car. They were parked so far from the
nearest lamppost that they were in deep shadows.
With her brothers and sisters near, with the two youngest
asleep in the back seat, sitting as they were in a cocoon
of darkness, she should feel safe. But she didn't. Though
it was standing still the car seemed to be flying down a
highway, going too fast. Even the dark inside of it was
O She is very worried about what would happen to her
family
She is in denial about her family's present
circumstances
O She is trying to stay upbeat and carefree whenever
possible
She is having a hard time feeling safe in almost all
situations.

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Which best describes an outline?

a. a graphic organizer that groups similar ideas
b. a broad question that a research project answers
c. a list of sources in alphabetical order
d. a way to summarize and clarify key points of a report

At the time of the Chinese New Year, people honor their ancestors. Families clean their homes to sweep away bad luck. People give children red envelopes filled with money. Families cook dinner for their relatives.

What is the preface or introduction to a book?

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