Discuss how James Baldwin in “A Letter to my Nephew” proposes to close the “immeasurable distance” between African-Americans and Whites? Please be sure to include why, according to Douglass and Baldwin, this distance exists—white privilege—“It is the innocence that constitutes the crime” and comment on the feasibility of Baldwin’s contention that “The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them, and I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love, for these innocent people have no other hope.”
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Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Based on structural elements what type of expository text does this excerpt from a 1917 congressional address by president woodrow wilson exemplify

Which passage from the story best shows how the mothers attitude toward gregor has changed