Choose a theme and write a paragraph that states your own interpretation of that theme in “Raymond’s Run.” Be sure to provide evidence and an explanation of your evidence.

Answer and Explanation:

Among the many themes that can be found in the short story "Raymond's Run", by Toni Cade Bambara, there is the theme of female friendship. The main character is a determined girl named Hazel. She seems to know quite well who she is and what she wants in life. That makes her more upfront, more straightforward in her relationships with others. Hazel does not feel the need to hide who she is. However, she does not sense the same in other girls. She thinks girls are not taught to be true to themselves. They are also not taught to be nice to others:

Gretchen smiles, but it’s not a smile, and I’m thinking that girls never really  smile at each other because they don’t know how and don’t want to know how  and there’s probably no one to teach us how, cause grown-up girls don’t know  either.

In the end of the story, Hazel and Gretchen compete against each other in a race. This is the first time they actually see and respect each other. Hazel realizes it is possible for girls to let their walls down:

And she nods to congratulate me  and then she smiles. And I smile. We stand there with this big smile of respect  between us. It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering  we don’t practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we too busy  being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy  of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Answer:

sample response

Explanation:

One theme in the story is "love can make people very generous." Squeaky loves to run, but she's willing to give it up to train Raymond as a runner. She says, "I've got a roomful of ribbons and medals and awards. But what has Raymond got to call his own?" This shows Squeaky wants Raymond to be successful too. Therefore, because of her love for Raymond, Squeaky is willing to give up what's most important to her so that he can have something he loves as well.

4. What is Old Man Warner's attitude about those who would like to change
things?

How does the ballerina’s attitude toward her kickboxing class change? Include examples from the last six stanzas of the poem to support your answer.
from the poem "New Moves"
30 points to whoever answers

1.682 inches rounded to the nearest whole number is 1.6 inches true or false

Jackson Al was the best city I ever visited. I learned so much about myself while I spent the summer in that city. I hate collards, jowls, and sweet water cornbread. I don't like picking weeds from gardening. I also hate waking up in the morning at 4:30 a.m. What is this an example of?

A. Reflection

B. dialouge

C. quotation

D. first hand accounts​

“Life is a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” Support the given comment with logical arguments.

one of my best friends are going to travel to Europe this summer which option best revises this sentence to use correct subject-verb
A change one of my best friends to my best friend Tim
Bchange are going to is going to
C change this summer to next summer
Dchange travel to Europe to travels to Europe

Which of the following quotes best represents the theme of gender in the novel?

•None of the Iraqi men seemed to take notice of Marla, but the women did, and I saw one of them smiling."

•"We want freedom, we want love, we want a chance to go to heaven when the time comes."

•we will be able to divert men away from that operation to providing security for your people."

•You're not allowed to treat Iraqis."

10. A phrase is different from a clause because phrases do not contain and​

From "The Tyranny of Things" by Elizabeth Morris

Two fifteen-year-old girls stood eyeing one another on first acquaintance. Finally one little girl said, "Which do you like best, people or things?" The other little girl said, "Things." They were friends at once.

I suppose we all go through a phase when we like things best; and not only like them, but want to possess them under our hand. The passion for accumulation is upon us. We make "collections," we fill our rooms, our walls, our tables, our desks, with things, things, things.

Many people never pass out of this phase. They never see a flower without wanting to pick it and put it in a vase, they never enjoy a book without wanting to own it, nor a picture without wanting to hang it on their walls. They keep photographs of all their friends and kodak albums of all the places they visit, they save all their theater programmes and dinner cards, they bring home all their alpenstocks. Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.

But to some of us a day comes when we begin to grow weary of things. We realize that we do not possess them; they possess us. Our books are a burden to us, our pictures have destroyed every restful wall-space, our china is a care, our photographs drive us mad, our programmes and alpenstocks fill us with loathing. We feel stifled with the sense of things, and our problem becomes, not how much we can accumulate, but how much we can do without. We send our books to the village library, and our pictures to the college settlement. Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret, where they lie huddled in dim and dusty heaps, removed from our sight, to be sure, yet still faintly importunate.

Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance, or we shall be once more overwhelmed.

For it is an age of things. As I walk through the shops at Christmas time and survey their contents, I find it a most depressing spectacle. All of us have too many things already, and here are more! And everybody is going to send some of them to everybody else! I sympathize with one of my friends, who, at the end of the Christmas festivities, said, "If I see another bit of tissue paper and red ribbon, I shall scream."

It extends to all our doings. For every event there is a "souvenir." We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away. Even our children cannot have a birthday party, and play games, and eat good things, and be happy. The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home. Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles, which can never cut the waves clean and sure and swift until she has been scraped bare again. And there seems little hope for us this side our last port.

And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope! When a man’s possessions were burned with him, so that he might, forsooth, have them all about him in the next world! Suffocating thought! To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.

One central idea of Morris’s essay is that getting rid of things can be a relief for people. Which two of these details help illustrate that idea?

Choose one answer from each group. Type the LETTER ONLY for each answer in the correct blank.

Type A, B, C, or D for Blank 1.

Their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.
Truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles.
Such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret.
Then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance.

Type E, F, G, or H for Blank 2.
The host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home.
We cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away.
And to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope!
To think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! That must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.
Answer for Blank 1:

Answer for Blank 2:

This is probably really easy but, I would like if someone told me the answers because I can’t decide on my choices. Please answer quickly it is due today! This is on Pigs is Pigs commonlit assignment.

Read the excerpt from "Lady Liberty." It was a very good plan given the poor state of repair on Bedloe. Still, Papa and I decided to risk the sagging wooden stairs and climb to the crown. Inside, kerosene lamps were the only light. The air was stale, and it seemed like a place where accidents could happen. Even so, a crowd of people were willing to risk their safety and climb 354 steps for a view of the harbor and city. To me, it seemed as if every stair was a step toward freedom and light.


Which is the best objective summary of this excerpt?


A. The air inside the Statue of Liberty smelled old and stuffy, which made it hard to climb to the top.

B. Climbing up to the top of the Statue of Liberty was worth any risk that may have resulted.

C. There was very little light inside the Statue of Liberty, but people, including the narrator, still climbed to the top.

D. Despite the conditions inside the Statue of Liberty, many people, including the narrator, climbed up to the top.

In Act I of The Crucible, why does Reverend Parris seek help for Betty from Reverend Hale?

what is the most memorable trip of your life?​

Neeeeeeed heeeeelp. Contact sports should be banned in high schools? tell me the reasons why they should stop the sport like it will help them to what?!​

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which is a frequent source of controversy in public debates, says that "a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The controversy stems from the fact that some Americans feel that the Second Amendment guarantees all citizens the absolute right to own firearms, while others believe that some restrictions on gun ownership are consistent with the Second Amendment.

Which of the following sentences best describes the author’s message in this passage?

The Second Amendment addresses the topic of gun control, which is a current issue.
Americans have found that the Second Amendment can be interpreted in different ways.
The US Constitution contains many examples of amendments that people debate today.
There is no need to debate the issue of gun control when the Second Amendment is so clear.

Kevin has a credit score of 605. According to the following table, his credit
rating is considered to be which of these?
Ifyour EICO credit score is
Your credit rating is considered to be
Excellent
Good
750
660
620
350
850
-749
-659
-619
Poor
OA. Excellent
OB. Fair
Oc. Poor
OD. Good

The Golden Rule, What connections do all of the quotes have?

Write a letter to your parents

Decide whether each of the following groups of words is a complete sentence (an independent clause) or an incomplete sentence (a dependent clause). If the sentence is incomplete, capitalize it and do whatever else is necessary to make it complete. If the sentence is complete, capitalize the first word and add the appropriate ending punctuation.
three ships went with Columbus
because they found no gold in that country
after they went running through
he wants to visit the moon
the boy who has lots of freckles
she turned a page in her book
a book that I read
before the race began

Help! really fast pls

Select the correct answer.
Beth has been diagnosed with a psychological disorder based on the 4 Ds. What are they
OA.
distress, deviance, danger, dysfunctional
OB. dejection, danger, disappointment, distress
O C. deviance, discomfort, dread, dysfunctional
OD. depression, deviance, danger, disappointment

Which best describes the speaker’s attitude toward the dandelion?

if given a chance to be the overall in charge of the national security council of the country, what will be your (3) top priority security programs for your countrymen? explain.​

what's a powerful bullying title for slam poetry! ur own words!​

What critical skills do you use to identify a claim ?

Why do you think that the social injustice of gender discrimination is unfair.

Arabs who live in North Africa can trace their ancestry to the Middle East. Please select the best answer from the choices provided T F

Where is Georgia State College located?
a.
Milledgeville
c.
Andalusia
b.
Savannah
d.
Out in the countryside


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

Which statement would NOT be a problem with the government implementing fiscal policy?
A)
bureaucratic lag would cause a delay in economic benefit
B)
politically motivated unnecessary spending on public works
international trade weakens the effect of the governmental policy
D)
an increase in the interest rate can negatively affect investment spending
and the housing market

What do context and inferences have in common?

You cannot tell the meaning of a word by how it is used.
You can decide how to write a story based on inferences.
You can infer the context of a story based on dictionary definitions.
You can use the context of a story to infer what is going on.