Which best explains the term consistency as it is used in writing?

a. a sense that the language has its own texture

b. the voice that seems to be telling the story

c. logical coherence in the different parts of the story

d. showing the same scene from different perspectives

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.