Surrender speechby black hawk 1832

part a

how have black hawk's cultural experiences shaped his view about the nature of the danger native americans face in their conflict with white people?

a. his experiences and made him feel that the only victory available to native americans to be choose death over a life of and immorality and weakness

b. his experiences have given him confidence that the conflict will continue with him and the native american will prevail due to their superiority

c. his experiences have led him to believe that to save their culture, native americans must oppose and defeat white people to avoid becoming like them

d. his experiences have caused him to conclude the native americans and white men become more similar as they fight, and that there is no hope for native americans

part b

how did black hawk's with chick in this expert advance the viewpoint selected in part a?

when told them to let us alone; but they followed on and beset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us like to snake. they poisoned us by their touch. we lived in danger. we were becoming like them, hypocrites and liars, adulterers, lazy drones, all talkers, and no workers.

a. he uses repetition in a dramatic tone to emphasize his point that white people are evil by nature

b. he uses a paradoxical statement to reveal a surprising truth about how native americans are changing

c. he uses compare and contrast to demonstrate how native americans are different than white people

d. he uses a simile and figurative language to convey the idea that white people morally corrupt native american

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.

Aman lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. in the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky