Read this excerpt from We Beat the Street
"Hassan and Ahi are going to Howard University in D. C.," Rameck commented, "but their folks have a little
cash." He fell silent.
"I think it would be cool to go into business," Sampson said, "You know, become an entrepreneur and own
some big company." He sounded a little vague.
"What kind of business is there around here except for drugs and crime?" George asked bitterly,
"Show business!" Rameck told him. "We can be rap stars!"
"Yeah, right. You need money even to do that," Sampson told him.
Sampson drove the other two home then, their hopes and dreams left in the starlight.
What effect does the boys' lack of money have on them?
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It makes them jealous of students who are going to college.
It fuels their interest in owning a successful business.
It motivates them to pursue their individual interests.
It makes them believe that their goals are too difficult to achieve.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

The description of the house in this excerpt gives an example of

How does the protagonist in condensed milk cultural background affect his choices