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What are the plaintiffs seeking for their children in Brown v. Board of Education?
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admission to public schools
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Choose the correct version of the sentence.
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Top athletes train long hours, eat healthy diets, and dedicate themselves to their sports.
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Which sentence best uses academic vocabulary?
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In the last stanza of the poem, the elderly woman expresses anxiety about her family members who live far away.
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ead the excerpt from Black Boy.
Then my father was called; he came forward jauntily, smiling. He tried to kiss my mother, but she turned away from him. I only heard one sentence of what he said.
"I'm doing all I can, Your Honor," he mumbled, grinning.
In this excerpt, how does Wright convey his father's attitude and beliefs?
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He depicts his father's carefree, dismissive behavior.
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Read the excerpt from Black Boy.
A quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when I saw my father sitting with the strange woman and the time when I was to see him again. . . . I stood before him, poised, my mind aching as it embraced the simple nakedness of his life, feeling how completely his soul was imprisoned by the slow flow of the seasons, by wind and rain and sun, how fastened were his memories to a crude and raw past, how chained were his actions and emotions to the direct, animalistic impulses of his withering body.
Wright's purpose telling this anecdote is to illustrate his father's
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shortcomings.
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Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.
How does King support this claim?
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by describing a law about parade permits
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Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
What is the author's purpose for including this sentence?
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to undermine the significance of his critics' letter
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Which sentence is written correctly?
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Chicken, a lean protein, can be prepared in many healthy ways.
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Read the sentence.
The speaker of Okita's poem tries to present herself in ways that have little to do with her customs.
Which is the best revision of this sentence using academic vocabulary?
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The speaker of Okita's poem attempts to characterize herself in ways that have little to do with her heritage.
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Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066."
I've packed my galoshes
and three packets of tomato seeds. Denise calls them
love apples. My father says where we're going
they won't grow.
Read the excerpt from "Mericans."
She's so busy taking Junior's picture, she doesn't notice me and Keeks.
"Hey, Michele, Keeks. You guys want gum?"
"But you speak English!"
"Yeah," my brother says, "we're Mericans."
Which of the statements best describes both excerpts?
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Okita uses the tomato, a food native to the Americas, to highlight the speaker's American identity, while Cisneros uses the English language to give her characters an American identity.
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Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth.
How does King support this claim in the rest of his letter?
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by quoting Socrates and establishing historical precedent
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Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.
In that year I had had time to become aware of the meaning of all my father's bitter warnings, had discovered the secret of his proudly pursed lips and rigid carriage: I had discovered the weight of white people in the world. I saw that this had been for my ancestors and now would be for me an awful thing to live with and that the bitterness which had helped to kill my father could also kill me.
Baldwin's use of the word "weight" helps readers visualize the effects of racial prejudice as a burden that
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creates tension and strain in the body.
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Which excerpt from Black Boy best reflects the way in which Wright's knowledge of history and culture influence his views on his father?
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From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city
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Read the excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education.
Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Why does the Supreme Court conclude that the plaintiffs have been denied their rights?
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Segregation is inherently unequal and unfair.
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Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.
He had lived and died in an intolerable bitterness of spirit and it frightened me, as we drove him to the graveyard through those unquiet, ruined streets, to see how powerful and overflowing this bitterness could be and to realize that this bitterness now was mine.
Based on Baldwin's reflection about his father's life, which best states the effects of racial prejudice?
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The effects of racial prejudice are passed down from generation to generation.
