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Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation. Why does the author include these sentences?
Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. How does King conclude this claim?
Which statement best describes how the author’s purpose differs in Chapter I of Nature and Society and Solitude ?
Read the excerpt from part one of Trifles . MRS. HALE: I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing. Which word has a meaning similar to “snooping” as it is used in this excerpt?
Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics . The data also show that smaller offices are more honest than big ones. An office with a few dozen employees generally outpays by 3 to 5 percent an office with a few hundred employees. This may seem counterintuitive. In a bigger office, a bigger crowd is bound to convene around the bagel table, providing more witnesses to make sure you drop your money in the box. But in the big-office/small-office comparison, bagel crime seems to mirror street crime. There is far less street crime per capita in rural areas than in cities, in large part because a rural criminal is more likely to be known (and therefore caught). Also, a smaller community tends to exert greater social incentives against crime, the main one being shame. Which idea from this paragraph supports the claim that “smaller offices are more honest than big ones”?
Which of the following statements support the claim in Freakonomics that “people are generally good even without enforcement”?
Read the passage from How to Live Twenty-Four Hours a Day. "What? I am to cultivate my mind in the street, on the platform, in the train, and in the crowded street again?” Precisely. Nothing simpler! Which phrase most helps the reader conclude that the author’s purpose is to persuade?
Read the excerpt from "Civil Disobedience." As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. Based on his transcendental beliefs, Thoreau most likely believed that the state
How did Thoreau’s general opinion of government relate to his imprisonment, as described in "Civil Disobedience"?
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