In the context of the poem, how has America changed over time?
Consider the poem's references to Rosa Parks refusing to leave her seat, the murder of Emmett Till and Brown vs Board of Education, and contrast this with the current climate and race relations within America today. How have things changed? In what way have circumstances changed for the better, remained the same or even grown worse?



Rosa Parks
BY NIKKI GIOVANNI
This is for the Pullman Porters who organized when people said
they couldn't. And carried the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago
Defender to the Black Americans in the South so they would
know they were not alone. This is for the Pullman Porters who
helped Thurgood Marshall go south and come back north to fight
the fight that resulted in Brown v. Board of Education because
even though Kansas is west and even though Topeka is the birth-
place of Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote the powerful "The
Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock," it was the
Pullman Porters who whispered to the traveling men both
the Blues Men and the "Race" Men so that they both would
know what was going on. This is for the Pullman Porters who
smiled as if they were happy and laughed like they were tickled
when some folks were around and who silently rejoiced in 1954
when the Supreme Court announced its 9—0 decision that "sepa-
rate is inherently unequal." This is for the Pullman Porters who
smiled and welcomed a fourteen-year-old boy onto their train in
1955. They noticed his slight limp that he tried to disguise with a
doo-wop walk; they noticed his stutter and probably understood
why his mother wanted him out of Chicago during the summer
when school was out. Fourteen-year-old Black boys with limps
and stutters are apt to try to prove themselves in dangerous ways
when mothers aren't around to look after them. So this is for the
Pullman Porters who looked over that fourteen-year-old while
the train rolled the reverse of the Blues Highway from Chicago to
St. Louis to Memphis to Mississippi. This is for the men who kept
him safe; and if Emmett Till had been able to stay on a train all
summer he would have maybe grown a bit of a paunch, certainly
lost his hair, probably have worn bifocals and bounced his grand-
children on his knee telling them about his summer riding the
rails. But he had to get off the train. And ended up in Money,
Mississippi. And was horribly, brutally, inexcusably, and unac-
ceptably murdered. This is for the Pullman Porters who, when the
sheriff was trying to get the body secretly buried, got Emmett's
body on the northbound train, got his body home to Chicago,
where his mother said: I want the world to see what they did
to my boy. And this is for all the mothers who cried. And this is
for all the people who said Never Again. And this is about Rosa
Parks whose feet were not so tired, it had been, after all, an ordi-
nary day, until the bus driver gave her the opportunity to make
history. This is about Mrs. Rosa Parks from Tuskegee, Alabama,
who was also the field secretary of the NAACP. This is about the
moment Rosa Parks shouldered her cross, put her worldly goods
aside, was willing to sacrifice her life, so that that young man in
Money, Mississippi, who had been so well protected by the
Pullman Porters, would not have died in vain. When Mrs. Parks
said "NO" a passionate movement was begun. No longer would
there be a reliance on the law; there was a higher law. When Mrs.
Parks brought that light of hers to expose the evil of the system,
the sun came and rested on her shoulders bringing the heat and
the light of truth. Others would follow Mrs. Parks. Four young
men in Greensboro, North Carolina, would also say No. Great
voices would be raised singing the praises of God and exhorting
us "to forgive those who trespass against us." But it was the
Pullman Porters who safely got Emmett to his granduncle and it
was Mrs. Rosa Parks who could not stand that death. And in not
being able to stand it. She sat back down.

Answer:

The answer is B. Declarative.

Explanation:

Exclamatory ends in an "!" Interrogative ends in an "?" Imperative is a command. Declarative is a statement.

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what they mean by what they gathered they are refering to the survey answers

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the paragraph said that the students have taken a survey about the pendemic

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The first was with François Mauriac, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. Wiesel was a poor, struggling, unknown journalist when he first came to meet him at his home. Mauriac began by extolling the virtues of Jesus, the son of God, who was unable to save Israel but who saved the world.

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B. The chair cars should be free to turn about the crossbar.

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Answer:

D. (the 4th one)

Explanation:

#1 Describes rising action, not the climax

#2 Is the introduction, not the climax

#3 Has nothing to do with the climax

#4 A 'turning point' would generally be the climax.

The phrase that best describes the climax of a play is the turning point, or decisive moment, for the characters.

A phrase is a set of words that function as a grammatical unit in syntax and grammar. The turning point, or pivotal moment, for the characters is the term that best represents the climax of a drama.

Where the climax is defined as a figure of speech in which a sequence of words or sentences are organized in ascending order of rhetorical power.

Therefore, option D is correct.

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Answer:

I think it might be the first one. It just seems a lot more reasonable to me.

Explanation:

The lines crossing the circle of systems represent the pathways that your nerves and blood take throughout your body. Thus, option "C" is correct.

Beneath the skin or layers of skin in the body. These blood vessels and nerve endings are located specifically in the middle layer of the skin which is called the dermis.

Thus, option "C" is correct.

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Answer:

Thomas Jefferson

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Response

Explanation:

Animal's reaction to any particular stimuli is called response. A stimuli travels all along through the receptor (stimuli detecting organs) through the CNS (Central nervous system) and then to the effector (response showing organs).

This is how, animals or human beings react to a particular stimuli.

The literary device that would be best to include as the topic of this excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" is: A. The device of simile, which occurs throughout the text and supports the theme.

In this excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi," we see that the narrator used simile when she mentioned that Jim will say that she looked like a Coney Island.

Simile is the comparison of things using like and as. In this comparison, we find the usage of like in comparing the narrator and Coney Island.

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a storm of freezing rain that leaves a coating of ice.

After reading the poem "Who Understands Me But Me," we can answer the questions in the following manner:

A. In lines 1-16, the speaker says he lives without the following things:

B. The setting the speaker evokes is of a prison, where he has no freedom and no happiness.

C. When the speaker says he follows the tracks in lines 30-38, he finds parts of himself that help him live happily, even without all those things.

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For my birthday, I got a guinea pig. I've never had any animals other than fish, and fish are very docile. You don't touch or interact with them as much, so they are very different. I did a lot of research. I went to the store and picked out my guinea pig; she's a girl! I named her Cookie, because of her coat color. After buying everything we needed, I took her home, and the rest is history.

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C. Snowball is being used as a scapegoat by Napoleon for anything that goes wrong on the farm.

Answer: 1.) Justine’s role in the Frankenstein family is that she is the servant in the household, but treated as a family member. Which of the following statements is proof that that is true?

the answer to this is B elizabeth says even though Justine is not blood, she is a sister to her.

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2.) Throughout the novel, Victor is often in a moral struggle or dilemma. Which of the following quotes shows Victor’s moral struggle?

A. “I found myself fettered again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection weighed down by horror and despair”

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B. “One of my first duties after recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university”

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4.) Victor does not confess that he believes the monster killed William because he believes people will think he is crazy and not believe him. Which of the following statements illustrates Victors reasoning for not confessing?

A. “Such declarations would have been considered as the ravings of a madman…”

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5.) Justine confessed to the murder of William because a priest urged her to do that she could be released from guilt in Gods eyes. However, her lie makes her feels even worse. Which of the following statements proves that Justine was encouraged to make a false confession?

D. “ I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins”

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Answer:

c. varies

Explanation:

not all apples have the same weight. saying varies is like saying the weight of apples differs.

Answer: Autumn

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answer in picture

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a. certain types of cancers take twenty to thirty years to develop, and cell phone studies have only been monitoring this potential connection for ten years or less.

Explanation:

This statement explains how we can't for sure claim there are more benefits because the studies of health effects have not been going on for long enough for us to prove that.

Answer:

A. Certain types of cancers take twenty to thirty years to develop, and cell phone studies have only been monitoring this potential connection for ten years or less.

Explanation:

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The sentence which best represents a theme of the passage is "More cities in the world have become alike".

Therefore, more cities in the world are becoming alike as a result of civilization.

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6 ) A

7) B

8) i don't know sorry

9) B ?

10 ) its none of the options because outstanding means amazing

The key points or central ideas that were made by the president include:

The key point in the inaugural address was simply about the protection of liberty around the world. It was stated that cooperation between the United States and its allies was needed to secure freedom for all.

Also, the central idea was that Americans have the responsibility to give of themselves to improve society. He wanted a society that was peaceful for all.

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Americans have the responsibility to give of themselves to improve society.

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Answer:

yes

Explanation:

because people should use regular grammar

Answer:

Instructions: For each underlined noun, put “A” if it is abstract or “C” if it is concrete. Part C: Identify the Countable and Uncountable Nouns.

Explanation:

Instructions: For each underlined noun, put “A” if it is abstract or “C” if it is concrete. Part C: Identify the Countable and Uncountable Nouns.

Answer: I'm confused, where is the text?

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The book of Ecclesiastes teaches us little bits of all the great wisdom that God gave Solomon. The book of Ecclesiastes is also telling us about all the trails that Solomon went through while he was king.

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The type of evidence which Machiavelli uses to support his claim that a prince should have no aim other than war and its rules and discipline is:

According to the given question, we are asked to state the type of evidence which Machiavelli uses to support his claim that a prince should have no aim other than war and its rules and discipline.

As a result of this, we can see that from the complete text, Machiavelli believes that the Prince should have no other aim other than learning the art of war and its rules and disciplines and he made his arguments using logical and anecdotal evidences.

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correct answer is d

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Elizabethans believed that God set out an order for everything in the universe. This was known as the Great Chain of Being. On Earth, God created a social order for everybody and chose where you belonged. In other words, the king or queen was in charge because God put them there and they were only answerable to God (the Divine Right of Kings). This meant that disobeying the monarch was a sin, which was handy for keeping people in their place! It also led to the idea that if the wrong person was monarch everything would go wrong for a country, including whether the crops would be good, or if animals behaved as they should. The Elizabethans were very superstitious.

The Great Chain of Being includes everything from God and the angels at the top, to humans, to animals, to plants, to rocks and minerals at the bottom. It moves from beings of pure spirit at the top of the Chain to things made entirely of matter at the bottom. Humans are pretty much in the middle, being mostly mortal, or made of matter, but with a soul made of spirit. The theory started with the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, but was a basic assumption of life in Elizabethan England. You were a noble, or a farmer, or a beggar, because that was the place God had ordained for you.

The Great Chain of Being is a major influence on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macbeth disturbs the natural order of things by murdering the king and stealing the throne. This throws all of nature into uproar, including a story related by an old man that the horses in their stables went mad and ate each other, a symbol of unnatural happenings.

Witches

In Shakespeare’s time people believed in witches. They were people who had made a pact with the Devil in exchange for supernatural powers. If your cow was ill, it was easy to decide it had been cursed. If there was plague in your village, it was because of a witch. If the beans didn’t grow, it was because of a witch. Witches might have a familiar – a pet, or a toad, or a bird – which was supposed to be a demon advisor. People accused of being witches tended to be old, poor, single women. It is at this time that the idea of witches riding around on broomsticks (a common household implement in Elizabethan England) becomes popular.

There are lots of ways to test for a witch. A common way was to use a ducking stool, or just to tie them up, and duck the accused under water in a pond or river. If she floated, she was a witch. If she didn’t, she was innocent. She probably drowned. Anyone who floated was then burnt at the stake. It was legal to kill witches because of the Witchcraft Act passed in 1563, which set out steps to take against witches who used spirits to kill people.

King James I became king in 1603. He was particularly superstitious about witches and even wrote a book on the subject. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth especially to appeal to James – it has witches and is set in Scotland, where he was already king. The three witches in Macbeth manipulate the characters into disaster, and cast spells to destroy lives. Other magic beings, the fairies, appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elizabethans thought fairies played tricks on innocent people – just as they do in the play.

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The Body

Medicine in Shakespeare’s England followed the theory of the ‘humours’. These were four liquids in your body – blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm (pronounced ‘flem’) – which needed to be in balance for you to be healthy. Each liquid gave off vapours, which entered the brain and altered the person.

If someone was ill, you could treat them by altering the amount of the humour they had in them. You might give them an emetic (something to make them throw up), or you might bleed them, to take excess blood away.

Each humour was supposed to correspond to a type of personality.

If you were ‘sanguine’ (dominated by blood) you would be jolly, optimistic and fat.

If you were ‘choleric’ (yellow bile) you would be short-tempered, red-haired and thin. You might also be ambitious.

If you were ‘phlegmatic’ (phlegm), you would be slow, pale, and lazy.

If you were ‘melancholic’ (black bile), you would be thin, yellowish, and tend to spend a lot of time thinking and worrying.

Many of Shakespeare’s characters correspond to one of these types – and he often makes specific reference to the name of these types. Characters use sanguine as an insult – Prince Hal does in Henry IV Part I. Today we might call someone sanguine if they were very relaxed about things – Prince Hal uses it to mean someone who is so laid back that he is a coward and a lazy person. In The Taming of the Shrew Petrucchio shouts at his servants for serving mutton because it is choleric – and he and his wife Katherine are already bad-tempered enough!

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From the essay, it should be noted that Moctezuma was captured by the Spanish invaders who was led by Herman Cortes.

Moctezuma was a leader in religion, politics, and war. He maintained their empire that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Spanish invaders that were led by Hernan Cortes arrived in Tenochtitlan which was the capital city of Aztecs. When they arrived, they were welcomed by Moctezuma.

The city of Tenochtitlan had numerous resources and wealth. Herman Cortes planned to take over the city and this led to the capture of Moctezuma.

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