Revisions:
A gang of thieves hid from the police. They used an ice cream truck.
It is an idiom which describes a person that is on a side out of the main topic.
Answer:
Pigs, widely present in world cultures, have taken on many meanings and been used for many purposes in traditional arts, popular culture, and media. As one scholar puts it, people all over the world have made swine stand for "extremes of human joy or fear, celebration, ridicule, and repulsion.
Answer:
This proposal would have the citizens of the city as public.
Explanation:
As seen in the question above, you will write an essay taking a position on a certain topic and submit the essay to the editorial board of the local newspaper, so that a possible publication of your essay in the newspaper is discussed.
The local newspaper is one that is distributed in your city, among the citizens because it brings important news to the people of that territory. In that case, we can consider that the public that will read your text are the citizens of the city.
