After reading the Langston Hughes poem I, Too, Sing America, I want you to write a poem as if it were being written today. Explain how segregation has ended and, using the kitchen as a metaphor, how this same poem would be written in present time. Your poem must be at least three stanzas long and each stanza must be at least five lines long. It does not have to rhyme or follow any particular poem scheme. Good luck!! (You can use the room below or the back to write your speech.) PLEASE HELP

12. why do you think that using a conversational tone with plain language when writing businesses messages is a good idea?

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"