Choose one story or poem from this unit: three kingdoms
from emperor to citizen
the tall woman and her short husband
saboteur
cranes
thoughts of hanoi

in your own words, explain the theme of this story/poem that you choose above:

provide 1-2 quotes from your chosen work that demonstrates that your theme is valid.

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.