Answer:
<u>Step 1: Determine which options are correct
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What are the authors’ main points in the article? Check all that apply.
- Option A: Social media was key in spreading news of the Arab Spring to the outside world.
- Option B: Social media networks played a crucial role in the Arab uprisings.
- Option E: The speed of news media threatens traditional Arab American news outlets.
Option A is correct because the article truly talks about the spreading news throughout the Arab Spring to the outside world. Also, the social media played an important role to be fuel the Arab uprisings. Finally, the last correct option is E because the fast reliable social media was much more quicker and better than the old and outdated news outlets.
<em>Look at attachment</em>
<em>Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt?</em>
<em>The correct answer is D. Sympathetic</em>
- <em>The word that best describes the tone is sympathetic. When the driver says, “Times are changed, don’t you know?” is looking for a change in the mind of his listener. He is trying to cause a reaction so that the listener makes sense of the reality. In the sentence, “Get your three dollars a day, feed your kids” The driver is asking his listener to do the actions that matter, he is asking the listener not to deviate from the path that is going to take him or her to live day by day. During the complete excerpt, the driver is showing compassion and sensitivity to the listener’s emotions.</em>
<span>“By
long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until I trembled at the
sound of my own voice . . . .”
His nerves are unstrung, he trembled at the sound of his own voice, this could mean many things however it is likely he is Saying (or Thinking) things that scare him when snapping back to reality, like a man who was about to commit suicide but then remembers reality and he fears his own mind of what he was thinking.
“Another step before my fall, and the
world had seen me no more . . . .”
sounds cool, but is too vague.
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<span>“[T]here was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.” This is close to the first one, he sees how far he is to madness, but is still on the edge and not insane Yet. However it's not as clear as the first one I listed
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<span>“I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me . . . .” displays nothing.</span>