I need a counterargument to why smoking in public should be illegal.

The economic activities generated from the production and consumption of tobacco produce huge tax revenues for most governments as well as employment in the tobacco industry. Thus by banning smoking public, it reduces the number of smokers and thus the industry goes away.

Banning people from smoking in public is a violation of one’s personal liberty as people should have the autonomy to decide on what kind of lifestyle they will have.

Hope that helps!

What is the predicate, subject, direct object, indirect object, and object of preposition in this sentence
“Throughout human HISTORY, progress is inevitable.”
(Their might not be an object of preposition but I just want to know which ones are there)30 POINTS

What do the underlined words and words suggest about LIDAR technology?

You read this poem at the beginning of this module. Read it again, looking for examples of internal rhyme.
Rhapsody
I am glad daylong for the gift of song,
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end things
Which hang on the edge of to-morrow.
I am glad for my heart whose gates apart
Are the entrance-place of wonders,
Where dreams come in from the rush and din
Like sheep from the rains and thunders.

George Reginald Margetson

Which lines from this poem include internal rhymes? (Select all correct answers.)
I am glad for my heart whose gates apart
Are the entrance-place of wonders,
Like sheep from the rains and thunders.
Where dreams come in from the rush and din

Read the passage.

Robots Are Cool, but AI is the Future

Many people don’t realize that there is a difference between robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). While robots do use AI, the two fields are entirely separate. Robotics is concerned with the building of machines. These machines connect with the real world by using sensors, and they can be programmed to perform tasks. Additionally, robots usually operate independently or semi-independently. AI involves computer algorithms that can learn, perceive, problem-solve, understand human language, and use logic and/or reasoning.

To clarify, a robot can be a human-operated machine arm that is used to weld car parts. AI can, without using the Internet, debate a human opponent on complex topics. Robots carry out instructions. AI mimics human intelligence.

Robots are more a part of our everyday life than ever. They vacuum houses, build cars, perform operations, monitor homes, and assemble furniture. AI is a relatively new invention, but it will soon be a regular part of our lives. So, how will we use it?

We already do!

Virtual “helpers” on our mobile and home devices are one way in which AI has infiltrated daily life. They can operate electronics via voice command. We can ask them to turn lights and faucets on and off, lock and unlock doors, and order food, clothes, and other retail items. Or, we can have them operate smart devices so that they can open and run applications, translate foreign languages, and check email. In addition, we can use artificial intelligence to conduct a search or schedule appointments online, or to use devices to set an alarm or find directions.

Audiobooks: A Case Study

As these applications master the human language, AI will branch out into a variety of human endeavors, including the entertainment industry. Audiobooks (fiction and nonfiction narrated by authors and voiceover actors) are one of the largest-growing markets of the last three years. Once an afterthought of the publishing industry, audiobooks have become an increasingly profitable source of revenue for publishing companies. In 2018, about $940 million in audiobooks were sold—24.5 percent more than the previous year.
However, the process of creating audiobooks is laborious, tedious, and expensive. It can take a narrator several hours to read a single chapter of a book, depending upon its length. Multiply that by the number of chapters in a book, and it could take days to finish recording. Finally, the recorded audio must be edited, processed, mixed, and mastered. In the end, an audiobook can take over a month to produce. On top of that, publishers must pay everybody involved. It could cost thousands of dollars to create a final product.

AI, however, is revolutionizing the process. Every day, AI algorithms learn how to speak like real human beings. They learn new words, languages, dialects, and accents. They can mimic natural breaths and pauses. Currently, AI can duplicate English spoken by a woman from India or a man from London. All anybody would need to do to produce an audiobook is feed the text into a computer. Instead of a week to create a final product, the “performance” could take an hour or two. The editing step would be unnecessary, so the audio could go straight to mixing and processing. With AI, the whole project could be completed in a fraction of the time it would take with humans—at a fraction of the cost.
Increasing the Quality of Human Life
Reading all those books will naturally make AI smarter, and when it does, it could relieve humans from tedious chores. Cooking, cleaning, driving, shopping, teaching, and even farming could be managed by AI. Humanity could enter a time of unprecedented peace.
This will allow people the freedom to do whatever they want. Did you always want to be a mountain climber, become a novelist, explore the galaxy, study languages, or learn how to make pottery? AI could not only allow it to happen but could also be a significant factor in successfully achieving those goals. Mountain climbers could use AI to choose the best routes, novelists could use AI to help develop plots, and students could use AI to increase comprehension and fine-tune skills. And those galaxy jumpers? Of course, AI would accompany them on their trips to the stars.
There are many predictions as to when AI will become powerful enough to really take off and outperform humans in a variety of capacities. Some believe it will happen soon; others think it will take much longer. Right now, AI continues to impact human beings in a variety of positive ways, from technological innovation to economics to creativity. The prospects for the future are exciting!

Read the passage.

A Flag with 50 Stars

The first American flag to have red and white stripes and white stars on a blue field was flown in 1776, shortly after the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. Legend has it that a Philadelphia seamstress named Betsy Ross was hired by George Washington himself to create this flag. There is no evidence that this legend is true, and no one knows for certain who made the first flag, which had 13 stars and 13 stripes. However, we know for a fact that the first flag to have 50 stars—the one we have today—was designed by a high school student.

In 1958, Bob Heft was a 17-year-old student at Lancaster High School in Ohio. At that time, the United States had only 48 states but was on the verge of accepting two more: Alaska and Hawaii. The U.S. flag at the time had six neat rows of eight stars each. What would be the best way to add two more stars while keeping the arrangement neat and orderly? This was the question that Bob’s history teacher posed to the class.

The teacher gave the students an assignment: design a flag with 50 stars. Bob spent hours in the attic of his house, cutting up a 48-star flag and rearranging the stars until they fit just right. He was pleased with his solution to the problem, but his teacher found it less than perfect and gave him a B minus. Outraged, Bob told his teacher that he was going to send his design to his member of Congress, Walter Moeller. His teacher replied that if Bob’s design was accepted as the new flag, he would be more than happy to change the grade to an A.

A year later, Bob had graduated and was working as a draftsman when he received a call at work. He never would have imagined a call from President Eisenhower—but that's who it was! Now that Alaska and Hawaii had been admitted as states, Congressman Moeller had succeeded in having Bob's design chosen as the new U.S. flag. Bob Heft was invited to Washington, D.C., for a ceremony during which his design was officially adopted as the new flag of the United States.

Which statement best describes the author’s viewpoint toward Bob Heft in “A Flag with 50 Stars”?

Bob should not have contacted a member of Congress about a trivial matter.

Bob was not a very good student at Lancaster High School.

Bob should not have spent so much time on his project.

Bob's grade did not reflect the outcome of the story.

Complete sentence with the correct words

Argumentative Writing:

If the Apollo 11 moon landing is real, what would be your counterargument?

Read the sonnet.

Sonnet XII

by William Shakespeare

When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

Question 1
Part A

What can be inferred from Shakespeare's "Sonnet XII"?


Time passes quickly for youths.

Dying young is a waste of life.

Everything that lives ages.

Animals and plants live without fear.
Question 2
Part B

Which pair of lines from the sonnet best support the answer in the Part A?


"Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,"

"When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,"

"When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;"

"When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silvered o'er with white;"

Is there a degree in welding ?

worth 15 pionts

Which letter shows the land first settled by the Inca?

(30 POINTS PLS HURRY) Look at these two photos from the text. Explain what facts or details the photos help you better understand about the place shown.

Pls help i need this fast Which prompt would be best addressed with a cause-and-effect structure?

Which sentence contains an inappropriate shift in person
A. If one follows the directions carefully, you should be able to find the location without getting lost.

B. When I asked my best friend for twenty dollars, he gave it to me without hesitation.

C. The film maker made a documentary about butterflies and hoped it would receive good reviews.

D. For the first time, our school's baseball team won all of its games this season.

When writing a descriptive essay, what writing practices should be used?

O Include quotes

O Include dialog

O Include sensory words

O Both A and B​

How many years does a welder do in college?

Why shouldn't kids play competitive sports essay.. Help asap. <3

Which of the following statements is true about calcium? (Select all that apply.)
Calcium helps to give the plant structure.
Calcium is a macronutrient.
Calcium aids in chlorophyll production.
Calcium is a micronutrient.

can someone help me with a book review of the secret garden?

Rebecca would like to add a direct quotation about voting to her narrative. Which is the BEST choice to include?
A) "The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office." - Will Rogers
B) "Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong." - Richard Armour
C) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. " - George Bernard Shaw Eliminate
D) "The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well." -Alan Keyes

examine figure 1 below. For each numbered location, identify which part of photosynthesis it represents, then discribe how each part enters or exits the plant

URGENT
PLEASE GIVE A REAL ANSWER NOT A LINK OR RANDOM WORDS

Read the fable The Fox and the Stork by Aesop to complete the activity.


At one time the Fox and the Stork were on visiting terms and seemed very good friends. So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and for a joke put nothing before her but some soup in a very shallow dish. This the Fox could easily lap up, but the Stork could only wet the end of her long bill in it and left the meal as hungry as when she began. "I am sorry," said the Fox, "the soup is not to your liking." "Pray do not apologize," said the Stork. "I hope you will return this visit and come and dine with me soon." So a day was appointed when the Fox should visit the Stork; but when they were seated at table all that was for their dinner was contained in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could not insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to lick the outside of the jar.


Write a paragraph identifying and explaining the theme present in this passage and how it relates to any universal themes. (4 points)

Fill the gaps with the correct preposition

in the book "Anything but typical" does it seem that jason has a hard time understanding what other people are doing or asking for him give an example

40 points

Match each statement with the part of the blog's viewpoints it represents

PLEASE HELP ME
quickly

IDENTIFY what figure of speech each of these sentences/phrases have in them?

"Even become his own rain cloud and somehow has stormed on him flooding him in sweat and swelter and his skin got a dull gleam to it, like it's glowing"

"Like trying to hide thunder under thankful"

"Like trying to mute the blues trumpet

"And it's more like he's swallowed the sun and it's burning bright"

How does the author develop the idea that suffrage is not a right?
A. The author supports the claim by detailing why politics is not a place for women but that the home is.
B. The author describes the challenges of politics and the problems that arise when women take part in elections.
C. The author describes the balance that is necessary in politics by showing the pros and cons of women voting.
D. The author supports the claim by expressing how women are better suited for politics than housework.

This verb means to separate a whole into its parts and then look more closely at those parts.
What's the word
Please Hurry
20 points and BRAINLEST

what does MALALA YOUSAFZAI mean when she thanks her father for " not clipping my wings and for letting me fly" and how does this contribute to the overall meaning of the text?

HELP PLS ILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING: (NEWSELA)


Read the selection from the section “Types Of Myths.”

Some perform superhuman actions, usually in an effort to save the world from evil and destruction. Many hero myths contain fantastical details. They feature characters who are larger than life and who are often fatally flawed.

What does using the phrase “fantastical details” suggest about the types of myths?

A. Some of the myths include events and characters could not realistically exist.

B. Some of the stories in myths include events that do not have happy endings.

C.Most of the descriptions in the myths are written with great skill and talent.

D.Most of the heroes in myths are based on true historical facts and figures.

Read the following sentence from the section “Types Of Myths.”

Icarus's excitement at his achievement compels him to fly closer and closer to the sun.

Which of the following words, if it replaced the word "compels" in the sentence above, would CHANGE the meaning of the sentence?

A. DRIVES
B.PUSHES
C.TEACHES
D.CAUSES