"the other battle cry you hear from people opposed to open file sharing is that the artist are not making any money. let's be clear about this. the "artists" people are referring to are famous pop and rock stars. these famous musicians are getting paid. they make millions of dollars a year from concerts, commercials, and other appearances." why is the passage an example of fallacious reasoning? a. everyone knows that artists don't really care if people download their songs illegally. b. everyone knows that artists don't make millions of dollars from their music. c. the author doesn't use any facts to support such a claim, so it can't be proven. d. the author doesn't know the artists personally to state such a claim.

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

maybe now i can have that white enamel stove

i dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

but you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

but now my daughter’s married

and my boy's most grown–

quit school to work

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove–

maybe i can buy that white enamel stove!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

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