read this passage from "an indian father's plea" by medicine grizzlybear lake:

my indian child has a constitutional right to learn, retain, and maintain his heritage and culture. by the same token, i strongly believe that non-indian children also have a constitutional right to learn about our native american heritage and culture, because indians play a significant part in the history of western society. until this reality is equally understood and applied in education as a whole, there will be a lot more schoolchildren in grades k-2 identified as "slow learners."

my son, wind-wolf, is not an empty glass coming into your class to be filled. he is a full basket coming into a different environment and society with something special to share. let him share his knowledge, heritage, and culture with you and his peers.
which word best describes the tone of the passage?
a) impolite
b) respectful
c) regretful
d) casual

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning