From “I went from prison to professor” common lit questions

Answer:

PART A

B. Incarcerated people and people previously incarcerated can benefit from receiving an education but often face obstacles in obtaining one.

PART B

C. "Based on the difficulty I experienced in going from prison to becoming a college professor, I believe there are things that should be done to remove barriers for incarcerated or previously incarcerated people who wish to pursue higher education.

What is the author's overall purpose of the text?

B. To show readers why it is important for incarcerated people to have improved access to education and how it can be done.

Explanation:

Dr. Stanley Andrisse narrates his story of how he was once an illegal drug dealer in the streets and served jail time, but remarkably cleaned up his life and went to college and became a renowned medical doctor. He believes that the stigma given to incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people shouldn't be there as they deserve access to education like everyone else.

Consider the title of the poem.how does the differences between the statue of Liberty and colossus "of greek fame" developed the overall meaning of the poem

Identify the authors point of view.

Explain how the authors point of view impacts this as a reliable source of evidence.

explain what connections do you see between Ha's situation and the information read about Vietnam ? 5 to 6 sentences pleaseeeeeee help ASAP Pleaseeeee

Which of the following correctly uses a conjunction to form a compound sentence? We could go to the park, or we could ride our bikes. My sister likes to eat salad and fruit. Paul is wearing a scarf but not gloves. Cindy folded the towels, and Mom put them away. I have to earn good grades, or I won’t graduate. you can pick more than one

What form of sound repetition gives a lilting lyrical feel to this line from the fish by Elizabeth bishop
With the swivel still attached

Read this except:
Calvin recently started a new job. Over the course of a
couple months, his parents notice that he works a lot of
hours, doesn't go out as often with his friends, and is
saving his money.
What might be the cause?
O A. Calvin needs to improve his grades.
B. Calvin hates to work after school.
C. Calvin wants to buy himself a car.
Calvin dreams of making the varsity football team next year.

Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman.

Those who failed to get past both doctors had to undergo a more thorough medical exam. The others moved on to the registration clerk, who questioned them with the aid of an interpreter: What is your name? Your nationality? Your occupation? Can you read and write? Have you ever been in prison? How much money do you have with you? Where are you going?

Which answer choice best paraphrases this excerpt?
A
Interpreters were used to giving medical examinations to immigrants. They would ask them questions about where they were from and where they were planning to go in America. If someone failed the medical exam, they would be sent to another doctor.
B
After passing a medical exam, immigrants would be asked their name and questioned by a clerk in their native language. Topics included nationality, what kind of work they could do, and literacy. Each person was also asked if they had been to prison, how much money they had brought, and their destination in the United States
.C
Immigrants passing the medical test were at once given a more thorough examination by a third doctor. If they failed this exam, they were sent back to their own country. If they passed, they were asked a series of questions before being allowed to enter the United States. While it was unfair, this was the system in place at the time.
D
With the help of an interpreter, immigrants were asked the following questions before being let into the United States: What is your name? Your nationality? Your occupation? Can you read and write? Have you ever been in prison? How much money do you have with you? Where are you going?
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What enabled Adichie to change her single story? What are other ways for these types of stories to change?

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What does this quote tell us about the media’s influence during the Nixon investigation?

"We saw the public man in his first administration, and we were impressed. Now in about 300,000 words we have seen the private man, and we are appalled." – Clayton Kirkpatrick, editor of the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper that published the entire transcript of Nixon’s released communications

The media shared real evidence and their opinions on it, which probably influenced citizen opinion.
The media disapproved of the president’s private actions but still supported and re-elected him.
The media rallied behind the president because of his great record during his first term in office.
The media could not publish or discuss real evidence related to the president or the investigation.

The author says that when dogs and monkeys are given the same test, "Monkeys wipe the floor with dogs on this test."

What does this mean?



Monkeys do the test on the floor more often than dogs do.


Monkeys are much tougher than dogs.


Monkeys and dogs frequently fight during the test.


Monkeys do much better on the test than dogs do.

Jenny rolled up her sleeves
As she sifted through the soybeans
Each sphere and oval shape more beautiful
Than her grandmother's blue cursive

She waved at the full moon
Out and about competing with daylight
Sand hill cranes flapped their wings
In the lunar sky

She touched the soil with her bare fingers
Searching for the traces of her father
He had tilled the ground only in the summer
Telling her about the perennials
"Some things are rooted, child," he'd said

Replacing the mud back to the earth
Jenny searched for her father in the setting sun
Somewhere in the horizon her eyes stopped looking

She had earned his love for all things living
She was her father's perennial plant
And knew she was rooted at home

A theme of this poem is identity. Which of these lines best support this theme?


"She touched the soil with her bare fingers"

"And knew she was rooted at home"

"As she sifted through the soybeans"

"She waved at the full moon"

match each motif to the meaning it develops in the play.

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Home

Hattie stepped off the screeching subway train and lugged her possessions onto the escalator. When she finally emerged from the underground, she got to the sidewalk and looked at the landscape. She was used to flatness and green; the farm that they’d just sold had cattle grazing as far as the eye could see. There was nothing green in sight here as cement behemoths sprung out of the ground taller than the stalks of corn back in Iowa. People zipped in front of her with briefcases tucked to their sides as high heels clacked on the pavement. It was all so overwhelming, so loud, and Hattie put her hands over her ears to shut out the sounds of the taxi horns and the thousand different conversations. Her little sister Evelyn didn’t; she was trying to take it all in.

Her mother pulled out a map from her purse and held it in shaky hands. “According to this, our new home should be right here.”

Hattie traced her mother’s index finger to a building that was so high that she had to crane her neck to see the top.

“This?” Evelyn gasped.

Her father, the man who was never at a loss for words, didn’t say anything. He adjusted the weight of the three bags that contained most of the possessions they’d been able to bring on the three-hour plane journey that had uprooted them from their old lives and deposited them in New York City.

Her father struggled to open the heavy front door, and when they were inside, the smell of hundreds of different meals clashed in her nose: spaghetti, fried chicken, fish, and curry. They stood in front of a bank of elevators as Evelyn pushed the button for the seventeenth floor. When they entered what would be their new home, Hattie spun around in tiny circles as her father gave them the “grand” tour.

“Here is where you and Evelyn will sleep,” he announced. He pointed to a room that was half the size of the Iowa bedroom that was hers alone, the same Iowa bedroom where she’d had all her sleepovers and whose walls still showcased the crayon scribbles from when she was a toddler. She’d tried to scrub them clean, but they were more stubborn than she was, so they would be there for the new family that would be moving in soon.

Evelyn tried to sound excited. “We get to share a room!”

Hattie was grateful for her younger sister, for the way that she could always look at the bright side of things. Hattie couldn’t say anything in response—she’d been speechless for most of the trip. Instead, she followed her father down the hallway that was narrow enough for one person to fit through, maybe two if they squeezed shoulder to shoulder.

“And here is where your mom and I will be.” She could hear the forced excitement in her father’s voice for a move that he didn’t want to make either. But they’d had to sell the farm, and when this opportunity presented itself, there had really been no choice.

The tour was over as soon as it started—a tiny kitchen, one bathroom, boxy living room. The four of them would be sharing an apartment that was smaller than the drafty old kitchen in the farmhouse.

Without a word, they grabbed boxes and started about the business of unpacking in rooms that were inches away from one another rather than feet. Hattie walked over to a dirty square window in her new shared bedroom. She wiped it clean, hoping to see something that would remind her of Iowa, but the window only looked out onto more concrete and glass. A wave of sadness washed over her—the first crack in the numbness that she’d been feeling for the past month since she found out about the move. She turned her back and lowered her head so Evelyn wouldn’t see her, but then the sobs came, each louder than the previous one.

There was a hand on her shoulder. She wanted to put the smile back on because she knew it would be better for Evelyn and everyone else that way, but she couldn’t summon it now. She turned around and saw her blurry sister through tear-filled eyes. In front of her face, Evelyn was holding a folded-up picture of the whole family in front of the farmhouse.

“I miss it too,” Evelyn began, “but we don’t have to forget it.”

Together, they taped the picture to the corner of the bedroom window so they could see it whenever they wanted. Hattie pulled Evelyn close, knowing that a place would never be as important as the people in it.

Which two details should be included in a summary of "Home"?

Hattie and her family move from Iowa to New York City.

Hattie's sister Evelyn comforts her and helps her to get over her sadness.

Hattie thinks the view outside her bedroom window in the apartment is dismal.

Hattie hears the forced excitement in her father's voice about the move.

________ united the Greek states after the Peloponnesian War.
a.
Chaeronea
c.
Philip II
b.
Alexander the Great
d.
Hellenist


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

How does the narrator feel about Stargirl’s lunchroom antics? Cite specific evidence from the first three paragraphs in the excerpt to support your answer.

Many interpreters at Ellis Island were either immigrants themselves or the children of immigrants. To work for the Bureau of Immigration, applicants for interpreter positions had to take a federal civil service examination that rated their speaking, reading, writing and comprehension for each language. —"Interpreter," National Park Service: Ellis Island Which question would best add to your understanding of an interpreter’s experience working with immigrants at Ellis Island? Which languages did the Ellis Island immigrants speak? How did someone get a job working for the Bureau of Immigration? Were all applicants required to take the civil service test?

Which of the following statements is true?

A. It is the motorist's responsibility to do everything possible to avoid colliding with any pedestrians.
B. Motorists must yield to pedestrians crossing the street or driveway at any marked mid-block crossing, driveway or intersection without traffic signals.
C. Turning motorists must yield to pedestrians at intersections with traffic signals.
D. all of the above

Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power.


How does this relate to the premises of Brown v. Board of Education?

The Brown case addresses whether state legislatures are equipped to judge the quality of education offered at segregated schools.

The Brown case addresses whether authorities believe that one race is inferior to another when creating public schools.

The Brown case addresses whether these laws inherently deny certain citizens equal protection under the law.

The Brown case addresses the legality of using police power to monitor public places separated by race.

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I took a cooking class so that I could learn how to prepare a few new dishes, but the first day was a complete disaster. I misread the instructions and turned up the oven way too high. My vanilla cake was black on the outside and soft in the middle.

When I got home, my dog looked at my creation as if he were famished. He didn’t mind that it was scorched. To him, it was perfectly palatable.

Use the drop-down menus to answer the questions.

Based on the context clues, what does famished mean?


Based on the context clues, what does palatable mean?

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Read these words aloud and underline the silent letters.
1. honest
6. gnaw
2. yacht
7. foreign
3. doubt
8. psychic
4. muscle
9. column
5. knead
10. almond​

What would be the most helpful question to ask to learn the cause of the Black Death?

How did writers report on the plague during the Middle Ages?
Which artists used the plague as the subject of their paintings?
Why did many people die from the plague while others survived?
Who was the most famous person who died from the plague?

What do her mother’s shoes represent for Chow? Provide evidence from the text to support your answer.

"Yet may I by no means my wearied mind..." contains an example of
alliteration
personification
symbolism
metaphor

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I know the passage is VERY long!! Sorry.

One of the French experts, Sylvestre de Sacy, started with the proper names in the Greek passage and tried to find their equivalents in the demotic version. He believed that, after he’d sin­gled out the names, he would be able to identify the demotic letters in each of them. With these letters in hand, he could then go on to translate other names and words in the demotic passage.

But the process proved to be much more dif­ficult than de Sacy had anticipated. He succeeded in isolating the groups of demotic letters for the names of Ptolemy and Alexander, but found it impossible to identify the individual letters in the names. Eventually he gave up, say­ing, “The problem is too complicated, scientif­ically insoluble.”

A pupil of de Sacy’s, the Swedish diplomat Johan Akerblad, made better progress. Akerblad managed to locate in the demotic passage all the proper names that occurred in the Greek. From them he constructed a “demotic alphabet” of twenty-nine letters, almost half of which later proved to be correct.


One of the French experts, Sylvestre de Sacy, started with the proper names in the Greek passage and tried to find their equivalents in the demotic version. He believed that, after he’d sin­gled out the names, he would be able to identify the demotic letters in each of them. With these letters in hand, he could then go on to translate other names and words in the demotic passage.

But the process proved to be much more dif­ficult than de Sacy had anticipated. He succeeded in isolating the groups of demotic letters for the names of Ptolemy and Alexander, but found it impossible to identify the individual letters in the names. Eventually he gave up, say­ing, “The problem is too complicated, scientif­ically insoluble.”

A pupil of de Sacy’s, the Swedish diplomat Johan Akerblad, made better progress. Akerblad managed to locate in the demotic passage all the proper names that occurred in the Greek. From them he constructed a “demotic alphabet” of twenty-nine letters, almost half of which later proved to be correct.


According to the passage, how did de Sacy and Akerblad influence each other’s work?

A. De Sacy was able to build on Akerblad’s work and make a demotic alphabet.

B. Akerblad built on de Sacy’s work and made a demotic alphabet

C. Akerblad and de Sacy worked together to make a twenty-nine-letter demotic alphabet.

D. De Sacy was able to fix many mistakes that Akerblad made

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Why is it important to write using correct spelling, punctuation and grammar?

Why was Bella hesitant when Edward wanted her too

What is the gerund phrase in this sentence it is important to seal windows and doors properly to prevent heat or cold from escaping through gaps

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The rejection letter from my Ivy League school of choice was the first major obstacle I encountered in my grand 10-year plan. It was not the last. I was 17, and at the time quite certain that nothing would derail me from my grandiose future. I planned to achieve everything my parents expected, and more. The first step was supposed to have been attending my parents’ alma mater, graduating with honors, and then moving on to law school without pausing to let my peers—or competitors—catch me. To say that’s not how it went is a gross understatement.
Needing a distraction in my moment of crisis, I decided to pick up another couple of hours of volunteer service. I rode the subway to Tri-Valley Hospital with that rejection letter wrinkled in my right fist. I probably should have left it at home, but I couldn’t bring myself to put it down. I’d spent so many hours volunteering at Tri-Valley to build my community service résumé that the trek there felt like it was accomplished on autopilot rather than through any active involvement on my part.
Alma was a new volunteer that morning, and I felt grateful for her presence, though I suppose I really didn’t pay much attention to her. Mostly, I was relieved to have something to focus on, other than the big fat rejection letter swelling in my pocket. I showed Alma the volunteer wing, which was really just a room with a few lockers, a microwave, and a lot of large posters with rules and cautionary messages. She shadowed me on that shift, and together we delivered food trays, chatted with bed-ridden patients who didn’t have visitors that morning, and carried out a number of fairly tedious tasks. I forgot Alma’s name three times and had to apologize. It was a unique enough name that I shouldn’t have forgotten once, but the rejection letter was burning a hole in my pocket and apparently in my mind.
At lunch, Alma sat across from me, even though by then several other regular volunteers had arrived and offered to take her out for real food rather than subjecting her to the cafeteria fare. I can’t imagine how far gone I must have seemed to her, but I’ll never forget what she said as I prodded the chocolate mass parading as cake on my tray. “You must really love what you do here,” she said. “I can tell you care about this place and the patients we visited.”
Her words dug into me, primarily because I had never once stopped to consider whether I enjoyed my time at the hospital. Hundreds of food trays served, hundreds of patients visited, and still somehow the whole experience amounted to nothing more than a checkmark on the extensive list of what I needed to accomplish to achieve my goals. I did think about it then, as I finished my dessert. She wasn’t incorrect. A lot of people hate hospitals—the lights, the sterile smell, the undercurrent of urgency, illness, and tragedy. But I didn’t hate it at all. The fact that I was there that day proved more than anything else that I saw it as a comfortable place.
Alma and I ended up attending the same university. It wasn’t Ivy League, and I wasn’t pre-law. Freshman year, I decided to complete my undergraduate degree on an accelerated three-year plan. Although that three years stretched to four-and-a-half, when I graduated, my wife of two years, whose name I had not forgotten once since that first day at Tri-Valley, was by my side and expecting our first daughter. Medical school was its own unique challenge, especially after the twins came along halfway through. We purchased our first house the year they turned six, after I landed a residency at Tri-Valley. But we slept in a nearby hotel for the first two months of home ownership because of a burst pipe that flooded our bedrooms the week we moved in.
Looking back, I suppose my life started with that letter. I don’t think everything necessarily happens for a reason—there’s too much tragedy in the world for that. But there’s no doubt that some misfortunes turn into pivotal moments that can alter the course of a person’s life for the better. Alma and I have been together for 30 years now, and I still wonder what that other life—the one in which my letter said “congratulations”—might look like. I expect it would have been pretty grand, full of its own triumphs and pitfalls. My children are fresh to the adult world, and when I see their tears as plans go sideways, I like to imagine that someday they’ll sit where I am with people to love, hobbies to pursue, and maybe even a spare dollar in the bank.
What is the theme of “A Complication or Two”? How does the narrator develop the theme? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least one complete paragraph.