What was most likely the author’s immediate purpose in writing "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” -to persuade readers about the unjust treatment of African Americans
-to inform readers about the daily lives of African Americans
-to describe his own experiences encountering various social issues
-to discuss some social issues he considered to be of great importance

Write a description about a boy with blonde hair that falls perfectly without him even trying.

What does wheeler say that dan’l webster can do better than any other frog?

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme