My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New Jersey, where they had friends and family, seeking a better life, and then moved to Boston after I was born. Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported. If I didn’t see anyone when I walked in the door after school, I panicked. And then one day, my fears were realized. I came home from school to an empty house. Lights were on and dinner had been started, but my family wasn’t there. Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own. While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer, and with an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance. Finally, they agreed for me to continue my education at Boston Arts Academy, a performing arts high school, and the parents of friends graciously took me in. I was lucky to have good friends, but I had a rocky existence. I was always insecure about being a nuisance and losing my invitation to stay. I worked a variety of jobs in retail and at coffee shops all through high school. And, though I was surrounded by people who cared about me, part of me ached with every accomplishment, because my parents weren’t there to share my joy. My family and I worked hard to keep our relationships strong, but too-short phone calls and the annual summer visits I made to Colombia didn’t suffice. They missed many important events in my life, including my singing recitals—they watched my senior recital on a tape I sent them instead of from the audience. And they missed my prom, my college application process and my graduations from high school and college. My story is all too common. Every day, children who are U.S. citizens are separated from their families as a result of immigration policies that need fixing. I consider myself lucky because things turned out better for me than for most, including some of my own family members. When my brother was deported, his daughter was just a toddler. She still had her mother, but in a single-parent household, she faced a lot of challenges. My niece made the wrong friends and bad choices. Today, she is serving time in jail, living the reality that I act out on screen.* I don’t believe her life would have turned out this way if her father and my parents had been here to guide and support her. I realize the issues are complicated. But it’s not just in the interest of immigrants to fix the system: It’s in the interest of all Americans. Children who grow up separated from their families often end up in foster care, or worse, in the juvenile justice system despite having parents who love them and would like to be able to care for them. I don’t believe it reflects our values as a country to separate children and parents in this way. Nor does it reflect our values to hold people in detention without access to good legal representation or a fair shot in a court of law. President Obama has promised to act on providing deportation relief for families across the country, and I would urge him to do so quickly. Keeping families together is a core American value. Congress needs to provide a permanent, fair legislative solution, but in the meantime families are being destroyed every day, and the president should do everything in his power to provide the broadest relief possible now. Not one more family should be separated by deportation. From "My Parents Were Deported" by Diane Guerrero (Copyright © Diane Guerrero, 2014).

Answer:

If not mistaken, the answer is D.

Widespread ignorance of the poor quality of legal representation available to undocumented immigrants best describes the author's exigence in the passage. Thus, option D is correct.

Barack Obama was the first African American President of the United States of America.

In this excerpt that was written by “My Parents Were Deported” by Diane Guerrero, she talks about how the people were being deported and after that, there was no one present to give any help with the legal information also how it was difficult for him to regulate and live a life when the parents were being detained.

By this statement, Obama wanted to say that while waiting for Congress to come up with a durable, equitable compromise solution, families are being decimated every day. There shouldn't be any more family-splitting deportations. Therefore, option D is the correct option.

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Think about an important event that happened in your life. Write one sentence that states what the important event is. Then, in a few more sentences, explain why that event is important to you.

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" Which statement best explains how the alliteration in this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" contributes to its meaning? A. The repetition of the 'qu sound in line 2 stresses the abruptness of the knock at the door. B. The repetition of the "n" sound in line 3 highlights the pleasant sensation of being asleep. C. The repetition of the sound in linei draws attention to the speakers unhappy state of mind D. The repetition of the sound in line 4 emphasizes the fear felt by the speaker​

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"To youthful hearts that long for play
Time is a laggard on the way."

The previous statement is an example of a(n):

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. allusion

Authors use allusions to,..

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New Technology Leads to Bigger Cities

In the 1800s, the United States was still a very young nation, trying to solidify its identity. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, a fast development of society following the introduction of machines. The United States was slower than Great Britain to fully embrace the changes. Yet key technological developments caused a rapid growth in American urban areas.

Better farming methods and tools in the 1800s increased food production. Americans were able to grow enough food for their families as well as to sell. The abundance caused food prices to fall.

The expansion of cotton and the growth of textile factories in northern states helped produce the first wave of American industry. More people turned to work in northern factories as a way to support their families. Thousands of immigrants to the United States also settled in or near port cities, looking for work. Even today, the need for work is a common reason people move to urban areas.

As a result, cities grew in numbers of people and physical space. As more people and businesses moved in, they needed buildings for living and working. They needed ways to move around the city. We call this process urbanization.

In 1820, the United States had only a few cities of 10,000 residents or more. About seven percent of U.S. residents lived in urban areas. The number of cities with more than 10,000 people grew quickly over the next 40 years, especially in the Northeast and Midwest. By 1860, about 20 percent lived in cities. Philadelphia and New York City were the most populated cities in 1860 and would soon reach one million residents.

The urbanization of the United States quickened due to technology improvements. Without innovations in food production, the factories could not have grown so quickly. The trend quickened after 1860 and continued throughout the 21st century as well. By 2007, more Americans lived in or near cities than they did in rural areas.

Which details are used to support the main fact in the fifth paragraph?

Mentions of Great Britain
Reasons why people move
Explanation of urbanization
Data about population changes

Which of the triangles described in the table is a right triangle?
A. Q
B. R
C. S
D. T

What is the meaning of the word variegated in the sentence?

The knit sweater had a variegated pattern of colors and textures.

O consistent

O woven

O colorful

O mixed

Read the passage from "Part of the Stew."
In this passage, the narrator engages readers by
I was mighty proud of our work. ... I held on to a great
hope that it would keep my father and my city safe.

In this passage, the narrator engages readers by

1. describing the details of the setting.
2. quoting another character.
3. explaining another character’s actions.
4. revealing his own thoughts and feelings.

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Is the verb transitive, intransive, or linking?

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body.

-transitive

-intransitive

-linking

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Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory. In these latter times, as in the days of our prosperity, you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity. With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable; it would have been civil war, and that would have entailed deeper misfortunes on France. I have sacrificed all of my interests to those of the country. I go, but you, my friends, will continue to serve France. Her happiness was my only thought. It will still be the object of my wishes. Do not regret my fate; if I have consented to survive, it is to serve your glory. I intend to write the history of the great achievements we have performed together. Adieu, my friends. Would I could press you all to my heart.

Think about the text, "The Dream Comes True." Select TRUE or FALSE for each statement. TRUE FALSE The author thinks Sir Edmund Hillary's account is accurate. TRUE – The author thinks Sir Edmund Hillary's account is accurate. FALSE – The author thinks Sir Edmund Hillary's account is accurate. The author and Sir Edmund Hillary are friends. TRUE – The author and Sir Edmund Hillary are friends. FALSE – The author and Sir Edmund Hillary are friends. The author feels he could have climbed Mount Everest alone. TRUE – The author feels he could have climbed Mount Everest alone. FALSE – The author feels he could have climbed Mount Everest alone. The author had to be pulled to the top of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary. TRUE – The author had to be pulled to the top of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary. FALSE – The author had to be pulled to the top of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary. The author felt he and Sir Edmund Hillary were partners.

Read this poem: how like a winter hath my absence been from thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezing have I felt, what dark days seen! What old becember's bareness every where! And yet this time removed was summer's time; The teeming autumn, big with rich increases, bearing the wanton burden of the prime, like widow'd wombs after their lord's decease: yet this abundant issue seem'd to me but hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; for summer and his pleasures wait on thee, and, thou away, the very birds are mute; or, if they sing, 'its with so dull a cheer that leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Where does the tone shift in the poem.

From the four dictionary definitions provided, determine which definition of gravity is LEAST EFFECTIVE as it applies to its use
in the sentence?

What point of view is used in this quote?"It was time like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."

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Read this line from Patric Henry's speech:
Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on.
What two rhetorical strategies does he most clearly use here?

Which statement about point of view in this passage is true
A: The focus on the feelings of many characters shows that this passage uses a first-person point of view
B: The use of the pronouns he and their shows that this passage uses a third-person point of view
C: The use of nouns Bill and villains shows that this passage uses a first-person point of view
D: The focus on the feelings of only one character shows that this passage uses a third person point of view



The passage
On another occasion, a band of rustlers stole Bill's cattle, so he hunted down those villains and knocked out all their gold fillings That's the reason there's gold in them thar hills!​

A prodigious man slept in this cave alone, and took his flocks to graze afield—remote from all companions, knowing none but savage ways, a brute so huge, [The cyclops] seemed no man at all of those who eat good wheaten bread; but he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude.

Which sentence includes the best example of a sensory detail? Morgan reached into the bag and pulled out a slimy peach. Morgan persuaded her mother to buy a bag of peaches. Morgan wondered if peaches would make good muffins. Morgan poked her tongue out at the grocery clerk.

Part B

Which sentence from the text best supports the answer to Part A?


A. "But it was all he could do, hold its body encircled in his arms and sit there.”

B. “Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

C. “All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right.”

D. “If he kept it up, he would certainly be with the boys by six.”

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The following sentence is punctuated correctly.

His doctor, at any rate, could not identify the problem.

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Read the excerpt from "A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long.”

She would go to the big library uptown and I now know
Hat in hand to ask to borrow so that I might borrow...
But she nonetheless brought the books
Back and I held them to my chest
Close to my heart

How does the time period in which the poem takes place contribute to the reader’s understanding of this excerpt?

It shows how books provided the speaker with an escape from social injustices.
It illustrates how involved people were with the social conflicts in society and what they did to overcome them.
It gives the reader a clear picture of what Mrs. Long considered to be the most important issues of her day.
It provides specific details about what the speaker and the people in her community thought about civil rights.

Tim Kylie is one of the world's top chefs. He is best known for his signature dish, triple-dipped chip steak. This masterpiece contains over a pound of beef braised in duck fat. Another of Chef Kylie's more celebrated dishes is the flame slaughter Supreme. This dish features ham stuffed sausage links presented in a basket made of braided bacon. While carnivores around the world roar for Chef Kylie's creations, it is unlikely that Chef Kylie will dine with them. As a longtime vegan, Chef Kylie would never dream of devouring one of his own dishes. Which type of irony is used? Explain your answer.

Rodriguez-Padilla celebrates the purity, honesty, and directness of his own childhood writing: "You wrote from the heart back then, about the things you cared about. You didn't care to be the next Kate Chopin or Oscar Wilde" (Eschholz 54). Yet, this piece begins with a quotation from Montaigne and includes several literary references. Is that considered a pardox? Is writing "from the heart" compatible with writing in a sophisticated or intellectually demanding way? Why, or why not?