What symbol does Mora introduce in this passage? What does this symbol represent?
My third gift was a photograph of the El Paso/Juárez
border: the Chihuahua Desert, the Rio Grande, a stern
mountain, two sprawling border cities. Like our families,
our geography is part of who we are.
When I was growing up on the U. S. side of that border,
the society around me tried in subtle and not-so-subtle
ways to convince me that my Mexican heritage was
inferior to that of Anglo-Americans. I hope that today's
educators on the border and throughout this nation are
now committed to multiculturalism, to motivating the
next generation to draw on their heritage as a resource
for learning. The U. S. has been described as the first
international country: Our varied cultures are our
common wealth.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,