Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. The night whispered of distant thunder. It was muggy,
hot, a miserable night for sleeping. Twice I had
awakened hoping that it was time to be up, but each time
the night had been total blackness with no hint of a
graying dawn. On the front porch Mr. Morrison sat
singing soft and low into the long night, chanting to the
approaching thunder. He had been there since the house
had darkened after church, watching and waiting as he
had done every night since Papa had been injured. No
one had ever explained why he watched and waited, but
I knew. It had to do with the Wallaces.

You are moving out of town and you are planning to sell your recently bought bicycle. draft a classified advertisement including the description of the bicycle, cost and other necessary details. about 50 words.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

Which tense allows for an event that began in the past to carry into the present moment in time