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Read the sentences from the "Ellis Island Oral History
Project" excerpt
What is one central idea of the sentences?
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I turned seven after we got here and here children were
starting at the age of five in kindergarten, so at age seven
they put me in the first grade, which was kind of dumb
because I didn't know the language and, I didn't know "yes"
and "no." That's how bad it was. I just sat there and every
time the teacher even looked at me I would start to cry
because I was afraid she was going to say something and I
didn't know what, what she was saying
O It is okay to be yourself
O It can be difficult to be different.
O Some people do dumb things.
O Anyone can do well in first grade.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Which of the following pieces of evidence from gandhi's freedom's battle is most persuasive in support of non- cooperation? a) "i consider that people are better disciplined now than they were before." b) "the danger that attended the civil disobedience does not apply to non-cooperati c) "i do not consider non-cooperation to be unconstitutional." d) "i cannot say a large number has responded to my appeal."

Why is mme. loisel "full of anxiety" when she asks to borrow the necklace? a. she is humiliated at having to borrow the necklace. b. she dreads going to the reception. c. she lacks confidence in her beauty. d. mme. forester gives her too many pieces to choose from