6. In paragraph 8, Staples use the word thug. List as many synonyms as
you can for this word. Do all these words convey the same idea, or do
they differ in their connotations? Explain.

Isaw my future flash before me and it did not take me anytime to slow down. i need to replace the words "it did".

Based on the speakers words and emotions in the poems escape and to live the theme that there are many parts to a persons identity is expressed in neither poem in both poems only in escape only in to live

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. though connor was commissioner of public safety, blacks knew that it wasn't their health and safety he intended to protect. and he certainly didn't put out their fires. between the late 1940s and early 1960s, more than fifty black homes and churches in birmingham were bombed. one neighborhood was hit so often, it was called "dynamite hill." no one was ever prosecuted, even when the police could identify the bombers. what is the tone of the excerpt? inquisitive sentimental apologetic scornful