Imagine yourself as an adult who worked hard through college and managed to get a house in a "wealthy part of the neighborhood", like Nick Carraway in West Egg. You are invited to a swanky Cie: stylishly luxurious and expensive; wealth and success used to show off) party held by one
of your neighbors, who you barely met. You decide to go and enter that party. Describe that moment being in the party in at least 200 words.
What kind of party would it be? What would you be doing at the party? How long would you stay at the party? How would you react to this kind of
party/situation?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.