Answer: A) The writer could make the tone more academic.
Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. From the given options, the one that represents how the excerpt could be best improved, is the corresponding to option A: A. The writer could make the tone more academic, by avoiding expressions like "totally important," "tons," and "it's obvious."
D- serves as a turning point.
Answer:
In "In the Time of Butterflies", Minerva is intellectual and political because she wants to go to law school and believes women should be involved in running the government.
Explanation:
Minerva is one of the four Mirabel sisters. She was the daughter of Don Enrique Mirabel and Dona Mercedes. Among the sisters, she is the most independent and outspoken. She is a feminist in many aspects. She was not willing to get married at an early age. She insisted on attending the law college and attain a law degree.
His good intentions and sincere desire to help the afflicted motivate him.
Unfortunately, Hale is also vulnerable. His zeal for discovering witchcraft allows others, particularly Abigail, to manipulate him. The amount of evidence for witchcraft when he arrives in Salem overwhelms him. Although Hale remains determined not to declare witchcraft unless he can prove it, the expectations of the people of Salem sweep him up, and, as a result, he takes their evidence at face value, rather than investigating it himself.
