How do these excerpts work together to develop a central idea?
Read the excerpt from "Remembering to Never Forget:
Dominican Republic's 'Parsley Massacre" by Mark
Memmott.
Passage A:
This week, people from around the world are expected to
gather in the Dominican Republic for a "Border of Lights"
commemoration that aims to "honor a tragedy long
forgotten, and unknown to many people."
Passage B:
Trujillo, as the Border of Lights website explains, fed and
nurtured anti-Haitian sentiment and created an
atmosphere that still excludes ethnic Haitians from
becoming part of "the Dominican melting pot."
The method his soldiers used in 1937 to try to identify
those who would be killed was cruelly unique. When
confronting someone in the lands along the border with
O Memmott uses a specific example to describe
Trujillo's cruelty.
Memmott argues that all memories should be
commemorated.
O Memmott explains that the Border of Lights
commemoration is an adequate way of honoring
victims.
O Memmott explains that the tragedy is not well known
today and then shows why it is worth remembering.

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below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.