Hi my dear friend,
Definition of laud: praise (a person or their achievements) highly, especially in a public context.
welcome:an instance or manner of greeting someone.
I dont see how these could be similar but they are similar in greeting someone. Yet one is greeting someones achievements and the other greeting someone to a place ( home, food area etc.)
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<span>C) It suggests the narrator sees himself as someone who has grown more successful over time.
In this, the author is being humble and generous by not stating "always" or "from an early age". He believes knowledge came with time</span>
Well the target audiences are very different, because at the political party the speaker is trying to persuade the audience to agree with him/her where as the target audience for the academic paper are trying to tech their audience on the topic, also the thesis is more clearly stated in the academic paper.
Abrupt end because of knee problems?
The sentence that best credits the information from the site is the first example:
Bird expert Lee Sparks describes Harpy Eagles as "oddly attractive, yet insanely dangerous predators."
This is the best way to credit the information, because it gives the reader an idea of who Lee Sparks is, why his opinion is credible, and gives him credit for the words that were used directly from his article.