Read this line from Empire State Building. I wake to taxi alarms. I am a 102-stop elevator ride to heaven. Which two facts help the reader connect the poem´s lines to the real world? A. The Empire Sate Building has 102 taxi stops and people can take free elevator rides there B. The author thinks that the Empire State Building is heavenly and likes riding taxi cabs C. Hundreds of taxis drive by the Empire State Building each day, and the building has 102 floors or D The author has an alarm clock shaped like a taxi cab and rides elevators every day.

Read the excerpt from a supporting opinion of the supreme court’s ruling in plessy v. ferguson, 1896. laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. how does this relate to the premises of brown v. board of education? the brown case addresses whether state legislatures are equipped to judge the quality of education offered at segregated schools. the brown case addresses whether authorities believe that one race is inferior to another when creating public schools. the brown case addresses whether these laws inherently deny certain citizens equal protection under the law. the brown case addresses the legality of using police power to monitor public places separated by race.