If the audience is very young, the primary goal is to entertain. For older people, however, there are a variety of different things the writer could be trying to accomplish, such as persuading, entertaining, and even informing. For that, you'd have to look at the content.
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Tax money is funding a violent, unjust war.
The crime that the state is committing is worse than the crime of withholding taxes.
Acts of civil disobedience such as withholding taxes are preferable to violent protest.
I need a picture to be able to describe it to you
The correct answer is B. I did some of the problems in my head, wrote the last answer, and stopped writing when the bell rang.
Explanation
Sentence # 12 "I did some of the problems in my head, the last answer I wrote, and when the bell rang I stopping writing" needs to be revised because it does not have a parallel structure "did", "wrote" and "stopping". To review this sentence to create a parallel structure it is necessary to change the last verb "stopping" to "stopped" to maintain the parallel structure which establishes one verbal tense. Moreover, the best tense is simple past because the author was talking about an past event. According to the above, the correct answer is B.
As a young man, at about age 26 he was an editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He wrote political opinion pieces, he would review theatrical and musical performances and report on life on the street.
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