"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform." - Derrick A Bell, Faces at the Bottom of a Well What do you think he means?

Derrick A Bell is likely explaining the following rationale:

As you educate yourself, you get to know many other realities, from social realities to economic realities, to political realities. This increased knowledge makes you more informed and critical, in other words, makes you more enlightened.

Because of this knowlege of other realities, you also become more empathetic, because you acquire the capacity to put yourself in other people's situations. And finally, empathy naturally leads to desires to reform the negative policies that negatively affect the people you are empathizing with.

the correct answers are 1, 2 5, 6

on 6 november american voters will elect members of the house of representatives and the senate, which together are called congress.

both houses of congress are currently controlled by the republican party, which backs president donald trump.

the democrats think they can win control of the house of representatives this year by winning a majority of seats.

doing so would let them block or delay the president’s plans by refusing to enact them.

all 435 seats in the house of representatives are up for election.

if the democrats want to take control of the house by having the most seats, they’re going to have to claim at least 23 from the republicans.

graphic: the battle for the house of representatives