Why did race and gender influence the way people were treated at NASA? What challenges did African American women encounter that white women did not? Have you ever been
prevented or discouraged from doing something because of your race and/or gender?

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

Read the passage. which statement best describes how pacing of events heightens tension