Why was it hard for african americans to learn to read and write in the 1800s? there was nobody to teach them. there wasn't enough time for them to learn. they didn't really want to learn to read and write in english. nobody would give them any books or paper and pencils. it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write in the south.

consider an orange peel: if you want to try and lay it flat, you have to stretch it, we know exactly how things are being stretched or squashed at any given point. we have many different map projections because each has different patterns of some projections can even preserve certain features of the earth without

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.