Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."
What is the point of this splintered whole? What is the point of a nation in which Arab cabbies chauffeur Jewish passengers through the streets of New Yorkâand in which Jewish cabbies chauffeur Arab passengers, too, and yet speak in theory of hatred, one for the other? What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian? Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities.
Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism. With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust, a sense of national identity would evaporate, that the left side of the hyphenâAfrican-American, Mexican-American, Irish-Americanâwould overwhelm the right. And slow-growing domestic traumas like economic unrest and increasing crime seemed more likely to emphasize division than community. Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. Terrorism has led to devastationâand unity.
Which statement best traces the development of a central idea from one paragraph to the next?
The first paragraph describes different groups of Americans. The second paragraph discusses what unifies them.
The first paragraph describes ideals shared by most Americans. The second paragraph describes how these ideals sometimes differ.
The first paragraph describes immigrant groups. The second paragraph discusses native-born Americans.
The first paragraph describes America during peaceful times. The second paragraph discusses America during times of war.
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English, 21.06.2019 20:50
What is the purpose of freewriting during the research process? to develop ideas for poems to create a journal to submit with a research paper to brainstorm initial ideas for a topic to extend the research process time line o
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Arrange the events in ivan ilyich's life, which are described in chapters 1â4 of leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich, in chronological order. ivan ilyich becomes assistant public prosecutor, a position that he serves in for seven years. ivan ilyich meets zachar ivanovich in st. petersburg and receives a guaranteed appointment in the department of justice. ivan ilyich graduates from the school of law and qualifies for the tenth rank of the civil service. ivan ilyich becomes a public prosecutor and is transferred to another province. ivan ilyich is offered the post of examining magistrate in a russian province.
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English, 22.06.2019 04:00
Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnettâs âthe secret gardenâ explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after maryâs parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncleâs estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through maryâs transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. ââitâs in the garden no one can go into,â she said to herself. âitâs the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ââ b. âin india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.â c. âmary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.â d. ââit isnât a quite dead garden,â she cried out softly to herself. âeven if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.ââ
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English, 22.06.2019 07:00
From this story and the indian saying which precedes it, what can the reader conclude about the culture in which the tale is set? a) they believe that death is always signified by pigeons flying away. b) they think that the behavior of creatures in the natural world can indicate things that will happen to people. c) they believe that honest, hard work provides relief from the ravages of the natural world. d) they think that death isn't the end, but only the beginning of a new life.
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