Answer:
D). The passage fails to make a debatable claim.
Explanation:
The key weakness of the given passage is that 'it fails to establish a debatable claim.' A claim is characterized as debatable when the readers could reasonably argue on different opinions regarding it but here the 'claim regarding the presence of gothic elements' in Hawthorne's 'Scarlett Letter' and Herman Melville's 'Moby-D' is already agreed upon and accepted as a fact. Thus, <u>there remains no point in persuading the readers' to believe in it by comparing the two</u>. Another weakness of this passage is that the evidence presented here fails to support the claim. Thus, <u>option D</u> is the correct answer.
Answer:
As time goes by. and water goes through the water cycle again and again. The amount of water on Earth stays the same. However one could argue with this due to global warming since our icebergs/glaciers are melting adding to sea-level rise.
Answer: “Not many Elizabethans ate exotic fruit.”
“Food was more scarce during the winter months.”
“More people had food during harvest season.”
Explanation:
Self-Sacrifice and Love could be possible themes of the story "The giving tree". The story shows that to make people that you love happy you may need to give something up which is important to you. The Giving Tree would be a touchy-feely story full of kindness and generosity. There's definitely kindness and generosity to be found in the story, but it's pretty one-sided. Sure, in the beginning, the tree loves the boy and the boy loves the tree, but things go kind of sideways from there. The boy doesn't always treat the tree well, but never the less the tree continues to love and give to the boy in order to keep him happy.
