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Comparing Genres: Biography and Editorial

Question 2 • PA-Common Core ELA 10 A

Read the excerpt from "Children of the Drug Wars.”By sending these children away, "you are handing them a death sentence,” says José Arnulfo Ochoa Ochoa, an expert in Honduras with World Vision International, a Christian humanitarian aid group. This abrogates international conventions we have signed and undermines our credibility as a humane country. It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees.

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A
They draw attention to the opinion that the United States is not doing enough to help these children.
B
They draw attention to the opinion that the United States is not doing enough to help these children.
C
They show that there is a desperate need for all countries to be willing to help refugees.
D
They show that there is a desperate need for all countries to be willing to help refugees.
E
They show that the United States has participated in international conventions on how to handle the refugee crisis.
F
They show that the United States has participated in international conventions on how to handle the refugee crisis.
G
They make it clear that the United States will lose the respect of other nations if it does not help these children.
H
They make it clear that the United States will lose the respect of other nations if it does not help these children.
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