Read this excerpt from through the looking-glass by lewis carroll. "i should see the garden far better,” said alice to herself, "if i could get to the top of that hill: and here's a path that leads straight to it – at least, no, it doesn't do that –” (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), "but i suppose it will at last. but how curiously it twists! it's more like a corkscrew than a path! well, this turn goes to the hill, i suppose – no, it doesn't! this goes straight back to the house! well then, i'll try it the other way.” and so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would. indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself. based on the excerpt, which statement expresses a possible thesis about the text? as alice begins her journey through the looking-glass land, she loses her way, because she needs to go backward. maybe if alice were from the looking-glass land rather than the real world, she would not keep getting lost. alice needs to understand that traveling in the looking-glass land is very different from traveling in the real world. because alice is an outsider, she has many difficulties navigating through and understanding the rules of the looking-glass land.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.