Two teen-aged boys get into a fistfight at school. when several girls start paying attention to the boys, their fight seems to intensify. a psychologist trained in the functionalist perspective would lay emphasis on:

answer; the civil right act of 1964;

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.