We have heard that in your own country opium is prohibited with the utmost strictness and severity. (t)his is a strong proof that you know full well how hurtful it is to mankind. since then you do not permit it to injure your own country, you ought not to have the injurious drug transferred to another country, and above all others, how much less to the inner land! of the products which china exports to your foreign countries, there is not one which is not beneficial to mankind in some shape or has ever yet sent forth a noxious article from its soil? not to speak of our tea and rhubarb, things which your foreign countries could not exist a single day without, if we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist? " - from "letter to queen victoria," (1839) by commissioner lin, chinese trade commissioner for the qing dynasty.

Read the excerpt from a supporting opinion of the supreme court’s ruling in plessy v. ferguson, 1896. 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.

9. types of literature that are told from a point of view include autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and journals.

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?