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:    Consider the poem's references to Rosa Parks refusing to leave her seat, the murder of Emmett Till and Brown vs Board of Education

Explanation:

The mood of a piece is: ?

The author's tone

How the author feels

How it makes the audience feel

the author's message

The theme of the passage relates to the theme from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by supporting it. Contradicting it. Summarizing it. Illustrating it.

What should you include in a summary?
A. All the same details mentioned in the main text.
B. The main idea and any supporting points.
C. Your opinion on the text.

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Part 1 Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. "I incline to, Cain's heresy*," he used to say. "I let my brother go to the devil in his quaintly 'own way. " In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour. No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer's way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could s.

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It is important to know the
difference between a piece of
evidence and an explanation.
Which passage is the
explanation of the following
evidence (data)?
Nicholas finds a frog in his
breakfast; however, the
narrator further explains this
by saying, "The dramatic part
of the incident was that there
really was a frog in Nicholas's
basin of bread-and-milk; he
had put it there himself, so he
felt entitled to know
something about it" (Saki 1).
A. Passage #1
B. Passage #2
C. Passage #3
D. Passage #4

Identify the structure of each sentence. (using simple
compound
complex
compound-complex)


One of the most well-known and beloved children's book authors, Theodore Seuss Geisel, wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss.

Though he is best known for his children's stories, Dr. Seuss worked as a writer and cartoonist for magazines such as Life, Vanity Fair, and The Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s and 1930s.

When World War II began, Dr. Seuss began drawing political cartoons, and he used his satirical cartoons to voice his strong support of the United States' involvement in the war.

After the war, Dr. Seuss began to write children's books again; he wrote one of his most famous books for children, The Cat in the Hat, in an effort to encourage child literacy.

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Change the following sentence from active to passive voice.
Postal workers deliver the mail.

DIRECTION: Below are statements describing the types of ingredients used in the preparation of sandwiches.

______________1. A staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often additional ingredients.
______________2. Maybe beef, pork and sausage products.
______________3. Popular seafood which are highly perishable and should be kept chilled to moist as quality.
______________4. It moistens the bread and compliments the flavors of other ingredients.
______________5. These are relishes, olive oil and chutneys that give a lift to a sandwich.
______________6. Chicken or turkey breasts, tenderly cooked are seasoned.
______________7. These are indispensable in sandwich making because it add texture, flavor and color to sandwiches.
______________8. These are sliced thinly, firm texture, and act as binder, moistener of other ingredients.
______________9. It acts as a binder, moistener and other ingredients.
______________10. It refers to a food item made with two or more slices of bread with fillings between them.

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1. ____ are you doing ?
a. What b. Who c. When d. Where
2. Children should ____ to bed early.
a. to b. go c. going d. goes
3. That’s a good ___ ! Let’s go to the beach.
a. thinking b. answer c. idea d. question
4. ____ don’t you come to my house ? – OK. Let’s go
a. Why b. Let’s c. What d. When
5. Tam enjoys ____ soccer.
a. playing b. to play c. play d. plays
6. Nga is __________ a play for the school aniversary celebration.
a. making b. rehearsing c. practicing d. playing
7. What about ____ Ha Long Bay ?
a. to visit b. visit c. visiting d. visits
8. The orchestra will give a concert ___ the aniversary celebration.
a. in b. at c. for d. from
9. Would you like ____ badminton ?
a. play b. playing c. to play d. to playing
10. My father never ____ coffee.
a. drink b. drinking c. drinks d. to drink
11. Nam likes ____ volleyball.
a. to play b. playing c. plays d. play

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What theme is most reflected in this excerpt?

Shame causes people to act differently from how they usually would.
People who behave honorably have confidence in their convictions.
Feelings of superiority usually come from a lack of self-confidence.
People who meet during times of war forge unlikely friendships.

Identify appeal(s) in this excerpt. Logos ethos pathos.

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simple and progressive tenses

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Describe this item and explain why you treasure it. Was it a gift or something
you bought for yourself? How does that make it even more important to you?

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cations does her essay make about each?

Kwanzaa was their answer to what they understood as the ubiquity of white cultural practices that oppressed them as thoroughly
as had Jim Crow laws."
Based on the information in this section, the author uses the word "ubiquity" to mean:
O a rareness and uncommon
О b unlimited and beyond
Ос celebration and fairness
Od timepiece and stopwatch

which of the following words is a synonym for morph

Fill in the blanks with ONE suitable word that will correctly complete each of the sentences.

1. I don't mind this heat, but my brother _______.

2. He put his money in one pocket and his keys in the ________.

3. She shouldn't have come here, and I'm going to tell her _______.

4. These peaches are the _______ I have been looking for.

5. The doctor always comes at once when we want him _____.

6. You’d better not go there again, _________you?

7. She's got a lot more courage than I ________.

8. I'm very glad you did what you _________.

9. The hotel was all that we had hoped it would _______.

10. One really should not do that sort of thing, should _______?

What is your attitude toward marriages?