Which statement best explains the cultural conflict that occurs between the braider, Aisha, and the narrator, Ifemelu? [Excerpt from "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie] Both the Senegalese braider and Ifemelu believe that it is best to be in America only a short amount of time, otherwise they could forget their home culture. Ifemelu feels the need to exaggerate her years in America because other immigrants like Aisha don't respect newcomers. Ifemelu's Nigerian culture teaches her to tell the truth, even if other immigrants will look down on her Aisha does not respect Ifemelu's length of stay in the US because she has lived there longer and feels more Americanized.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

The travels of marco polo. what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

How many syllables does a tanka have? a. 31 b. 17 c. 14 d. 10