Which excerpt is historical evidence that supports Achebe’s claim about why Heart of Darkness is popular despite its racist elements?
Read the sentence. Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees when he was thirty-seven years old in 2011 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Which is the best way to revise this complex sentence?
What is the purpose of a persuasive letter?
In an argument, what is the difference between reasons and evidence?
Read the claim. Students already spend their free time in front of electronic devices, such as computers and phones, and should not have even more screen time at school. Which statement would best support the author’s claim with additional evidence?
Which is an example of a sentence fragment?
What components should be included in a persuasive letter? Choose three correct answers.
Which paraphrase is cited correctly according to the MLA guidelines for a book?
Read the excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education . [T]here are findings below that the Negro and white schools involved have been equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other "tangible" factors. The Supreme Court is most likely interested in these findings because it hopes to determine whether
What are the plaintiffs seeking for their children in Brown v. Board of Education ?
Read the excerpt from Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue.” I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. What is the purpose of this text?
Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea . It is unbelievable how fast people adapt. It hurts to admit it, but within hours of first breathing the cattle car’s nauseating air, we began to feel at home. ‘Home’ was the edge of the wooden plank I sat on as I dreamed of the Jewish exiles of antiquity and the Middle Ages. More curious than afraid, I thought of myself as their brother. Mixed into my sadness there was undeniable excitement, for we were living a historic event, a historic adventure. Which best describes the author at this point in his life?
Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea . No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a man’s death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel. Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus . Open image in full-screen view Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?
By signing Executive Order No. 9066, President Roosevelt assumed that
Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066 was based on
Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son . He had lived and died in an intolerable bitterness of spirit and it frightened me, as we drove him to the graveyard through those unquiet, ruined streets, to see how powerful and overflowing this bitterness could be and to realize that this bitterness now was mine. Based on Baldwin’s reflection about his father’s life, which best states the effects of racial prejudice?
Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son . In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father’s bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me. Baldwin’s use of the word “weight” helps readers visualize the effects of racial prejudice as a burden that
Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. What is the author’s purpose for including these sentences?
Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. How does King support this claim in the rest of his letter?
Which best describes the purpose of this passage?
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