Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. almost everyone knew that, card-carrying members or not, the klan literally got away with murder, with the tacit permission and sometimes encouragement of connor. and there were lots of klansmen in town to carry out these despicable crimes: most of the 11,000 members of the kkk in alabama lived in the birmingham area. how does this excerpt readers make a connection to world events? by offering statistics about the population of birmingham by offering opinions about the frustrations of law-abiding citizens by offering details about southern resistance to civil rights by offering facts about a black family’s struggle to survive

Why is it important for students to establish some common values before beginning a discussion

Read this excerpt from tim o’brien‘s “ambush” “i had already pulled the pin on a grenade. i had come to a crouch” which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt