Advertisements everywhere, i haven’t time to think1
without some local merchant selling me the kitchen sink. 2

all along my childhood, it’s been exceedingly bad— 3
from my diapers to my schoolbooks, there’s always been an ad. 4

every show is brought to me by business courtesy; 5
every team i’ve been on has been sponsored for a fee. 6

doesn’t matter what it is, if i’m their demographic, 7
they add marshmallows! ‘til i think that i just have to have it. 8

i sing jingles when i read – their persistence is extreme! 9
i find ignoring messages to be a rough routine. 10

from getting up to lying down, the advertisements play, 11
but i’ve learned to lower volume and just to walk away. 12

future kids will probably find that our great civilization13
was easily told that they’d be sold the world’s next great sensation, 14

so kids like me have got to see that most ads are promotion15
designed to throw a lasso over human beings’ emotion, 16

but happiness cannot be found in catalogs or stores, 17
and the pleasure that they’re marketing may already be yours. 18

which best describes the tone of the speaker of this poem?
a) joyous and happy
b) laughing and comical
c) complaining and critical
d) miserable and despairing

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.