Iwill never total it all now. i will never come in to say: she was a child seldom smiled at. herfatherleft me before she was a year old. i worked her first six years when there was work, or i sent her home and to his relatives. there were years she had careshe hated. she was dark and thin and foreign‐looking in a world where the prestige went to blondness and curly hair and dimples, slow where glibness was prized. she was a child of anxious, not proud, love. we were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth. i was a young mother, i was a distracted mother. there were the other children pushing up, demanding. her younger sister was all that she was not. she did not like me to touch her. she kept too much in herself, her life was such she had to keep too much in herself. my wisdom came too late. she has much in her and probably nothing will come of it. she is a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear. what theme is being expressed in the description above?

Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics that he could do something so contemptible was hard to believe

The students who were in favor of adopting the new curriculum wrote editorials for their local newspaper which of these best describes how the information in the editoralw is different from the information in the feature story

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.