Which response best explains how author Mark O’Mara aims to improve society in the article "Gun Debate? What Gun Debate?"

A-O’Mara presents new evidence about the usefulness of guns in society in order to help gun advocates and opponents find a measure of common ground.

B-O’Mara shows the strengths of both sides of the American gun debate to help gun advocates and opponents find a measure of common ground.

C-O’Mara reviews the arguments of gun-rights advocates in depth in order to use emotional appeals to persuade the audience of the devastation of gun violence.

D-O’Mara puts statistics about gun deaths in a new light in order to shock readers into acknowledging the devastation of gun violence.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.