At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, "I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one." And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head. Which structural element is used in the excerpt by Anaya but not in the excerpt by Nye?

Question 3 of 10 points which sentence is an example of chronological structure in "the city without o a. without daily pumping, manhattan's subway tunnels would be flooded o b. some time in the next 100,000 years, glaciers will cover all of manhattan o c. central park has a garden that houses plants mentioned in shakespeare's plays. o d. if flooding were to go unchecked, steel support beams in buildings would rust

Ihave only a christmas cards left to write. a. few b. fewer c. less d. little

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.