In "interview with simon ortiz," ortiz argues that, though he may write differently than authors and poets who came before him, he writes "about the same things that robert browning or shelley or shakespeare did."

which evidence from the text supports this position?

"my point in the book was to indeed have indian people understood as people, like anybody else. we have daily struggles: we argue among ourselves; we get divorced; we need jobs; we try to go to school. we have happy times and sad times."

"i will try to write everything down. i try to urge myself to sit down and write conversations and dialogues that i have with people. i try to remember what people said. i try to put them in a context later when i’m writing."

"in my next book, a good journey, which was reissued recently, i utilized the oral tradition. my first major books were more in keeping with what i knew from the acoma tradition, living in this experience called america."

"i was concentrating on the immediate, yet referring to the pueblo revolt of 1680; that struggle then is very similar to our struggle now. it is much more pointed politically because the 1970s and 1980s were very much a time of political struggle."

He following question refers to the text and graphic below. read the text and view the graphic carefully to you choose the best response. "how 7th grade students at madison middle school use their smart phones" i recently surveyed seventh graders at madison middle school to determine how they used their cell phones. my goal was to determine which daily activities were the most popular. out of 151 seventh graders in our school, 93 of them use smart phones. 57 of those students agreed to track their cell phones usage in a journal for three days. i compared journal statistics and gathered the following data. data revealed that students spent 35 percent of their phone time playing games and using apps. these included games played alone and against friends. it also included social media apps. students spent 21 percent of their time texting and 20 percent of their time listening to music. music included songs downloaded on their phones and music that streamed from other sources.14 percent of cell phone time was spent browsing the internet while 9 percent of the time was spent using the phone to take photographs. most ironically, students reported spending only 1 percent of their time using cell phones to make actual phone calls. image of a graph with the title, how 7th grade students at madison miller middle school use their smart phones. a pie chart is shown with the colours, orange, green, pink, purple, blue and light pink. the following are the present ages. orange 35 percent, games and apps. green, 21 percent, texting. pink 20 percent, music. purple, 14 percent web browsing. blue 9 percent, camera. light pink, 1 percent, phone calls.

Which two sentences in this excerpt from theodore dreiser my brother paul are examples of characterization that suggest paul is a superstitious person?

The true confessions of charlotte doyle and "jonah and the whale" have which theme in common?