Which connotation is more negative?
soggy
moist

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? a. to show where the shoes came from b. to show how valuable the shoes were c. to reveal why stanley was arrested d. to give background on the homeless shelter

30 points! : ) also! question number two! analyze the connection mlk makes between the emancipation proclamation and the current situation african americans were experiencing. a; martin luther king was speaking about the need to free african americans from slavery, just like abraham lincoln did years ago. b; martin luther king makes the point that 100 years after slaves were freed by the emancipation proclamation, they are not truly free due to continued segregation. c; martin luther king thought life was going very well for african americans, and no further action needed to be taken. he showed extreme gratitude to abraham lincoln. d; martin luther king expressed extreme anger towards abraham lincoln for not ending segregation.

Understand that amassed in paragraph 3 means