These guys don't understand! i am good at sports - real sports, though. not this dumb game. back home, everyone knew i was a great athlete. but here, i don't understand the rules or the positions of the game and they all make fun of me because of it. i know i can show them what a good player i am but i would rather just play the sports i'm used to.
what is one plot development that would make the cultural conflict worse in this story?
a. the narrator takes part in the new sport but blows a big play by breaking a rule.
b. the narrator learns the new sport and proves himself by excelling at it.
c. the narrator tries to start a team of his own, but no one else joins him.
d. the narrator decides to try out for the school play rather than play on a sports team.

Considering "civil disobedience," why did both thoreau and martin luther king, jr. engage in acts of civil disobedience? to take a stand against government taxation to protest government policies they believed were unjust to protest slavery and the mexican-american war to take a stand against unfair laws in the 1950s and ‘60s

What is the purpose of freewriting during the research process? to develop ideas for poems to create a journal to submit with a research paper to brainstorm initial ideas for a topic to extend the research process time line o

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