Excerpt 1
I lay in bed, quivering underneath my blankets, staring up at the ceiling above me. I heard the pattering of feet, like a small child running on tiptoe. I turned onto my side and closed my eyes. Something was in the attic.
"It's just my imagination," I said quietly.
Scenes from earlier that day played like a movie in my mind. I saw my family's car turning off the highway. I watched as our car turned onto a winding road. The sky was cloudy, and the wind rustled through the Spanish moss hanging from the cypress trees. We drove into the darkness of the trees' shadows.
Excerpt 4
Jeremy raced to the beach and scrambled up onto a log. He pretended it was a spaceship. "Vroom! Roar!" The spaceship blasted off. Jeremy pretended he was soaring through space, searching for flying saucers.
That's when he noticed a small black head poking up from the water. Its two beady eyes stared at him. This creature was definitely not pretend. "Yikes, a space alien!" he screamed, leaping off the log. He dashed for the cabin and burst into the kitchen.
Gun control can indeed prevent future incidents that puts lives at risk, but it depends on wether the public has experience or not, and wether they really do have good intentions. Pro:
-less violent occurrences like school shootings
Con:
-How would the public react? Good or bad? Would harmful riots occur?
-How could gun smuggling be stopped if it did increase when guns are illegal?
-WHat if a store was robbed with a knife? How would the clerk defend him/herself?
Answer:
Explanation:
The commutative property for the addition states that when the order of two (or more) numbers is changed, the result of the addition does not change.
Mathematically, this means that:
where a, b are two numbers.
In this problem, we have the following addition:
By applying the commutative property, we can swap the order of the two variables y and j, and the result will remain the same. So we can write:
