2. PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
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A "I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle's, to the family of Trayvon
Martin... I can only imagine what they're going through” ( Paragraph 3)
B "The juries were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt
was relevant, and they rendered a verdict." (Paragraph 4)
C "it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at
this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away."
(Paragraph 5)
D "where do we take this? How do we learn some lessons from this and move in a
positive direction?" (Paragraph 11)

Thomas paine's common sense convicted colonists to

Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.