My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New Jersey, where they had friends and family, seeking a better life, and then moved to Boston after I was born. Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported. If I didn’t see anyone when I walked in the door after school, I panicked. And then one day, my fears were realized. I came home from school to an empty house. Lights were on and dinner had been started, but my family wasn’t there. Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own. While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer, and with an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance. Finally, they agreed for me to continue my education at Boston Arts Academy, a performing arts high school, and the parents of friends graciously took me in. I was lucky to have good friends, but I had a rocky existence. I was always insecure about being a nuisance and losing my invitation to stay. I worked a variety of jobs in retail and at coffee shops all through high school. And, though I was surrounded by people who cared about me, part of me ached with every accomplishment, because my parents weren’t there to share my joy. My family and I worked hard to keep our relationships strong, but too-short phone calls and the annual summer visits I made to Colombia didn’t suffice. They missed many important events in my life, including my singing recitals—they watched my senior recital on a tape I sent them instead of from the audience. And they missed my prom, my college application process and my graduations from high school and college. My story is all too common. Every day, children who are U.S. citizens are separated from their families as a result of immigration policies that need fixing. I consider myself lucky because things turned out better for me than for most, including some of my own family members. When my brother was deported, his daughter was just a toddler. She still had her mother, but in a single-parent household, she faced a lot of challenges. My niece made the wrong friends and bad choices. Today, she is serving time in jail, living the reality that I act out on screen.* I don’t believe her life would have turned out this way if her father and my parents had been here to guide and support her. I realize the issues are complicated. But it’s not just in the interest of immigrants to fix the system: It’s in the interest of all Americans. Children who grow up separated from their families often end up in foster care, or worse, in the juvenile justice system despite having parents who love them and would like to be able to care for them. I don’t believe it reflects our values as a country to separate children and parents in this way. Nor does it reflect our values to hold people in detention without access to good legal representation or a fair shot in a court of law. President Obama has promised to act on providing deportation relief for families across the country, and I would urge him to do so quickly. Keeping families together is a core American value. Congress needs to provide a permanent, fair legislative solution, but in the meantime families are being destroyed every day, and the president should do everything in his power to provide the broadest relief possible now. Not one more family should be separated by deportation. From "My Parents Were Deported" by Diane Guerrero (Copyright © Diane Guerrero, 2014).

Answer:

If not mistaken, the answer is D.

Widespread ignorance of the poor quality of legal representation available to undocumented immigrants best describes the author's exigence in the passage. Thus, option D is correct.

Barack Obama was the first African American President of the United States of America.

In this excerpt that was written by “My Parents Were Deported” by Diane Guerrero, she talks about how the people were being deported and after that, there was no one present to give any help with the legal information also how it was difficult for him to regulate and live a life when the parents were being detained.

By this statement, Obama wanted to say that while waiting for Congress to come up with a durable, equitable compromise solution, families are being decimated every day. There shouldn't be any more family-splitting deportations. Therefore, option D is the correct option.

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Part 1 and 2 answers?

These are Patterns of Organization
1. Chronological
2. Compare and Contrast
3. Order of Importance
4. Sequence
5. Spatial
6. Cause and Effect
7. Problem and Solution

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What is the central Idea of “Animals Like Us”?

Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments. Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides. Which words in the excerpt have negative connotations? Check all that apply. deprived elective representation oppressed sides

The answer choices are spelling rules about what to do before adding suffixes to a base word that ends in e. Identify the rule that would be applied to the word below.

accommodate + -ions

1.If the suffix starts with a consonant, keep the e and add the suffix.

2.If the suffix starts with a vowel, drop the e and add the suffix.

3.If a base word ends in double e, do not drop the final e, but never write three e's in a row.

4.Keep the final e only if it lets g or c make their soft sounds.

5.This word is an exception to the rule.


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Which dialogue most clearly indicates who is speaking and reveals the emotion of the scene?
O "How do you feel today?"
"Okay"
Mrs. Murphy said, "How do you feel?"
"Better" Dillon said,
"How do you feel?" Mrs. Murphy asked Dillon with a concerned tone,
"Better than yesterday." Dillon replied.
"How do you feel, Dillon?" Mrs. Murphy inquired of her son,
"Okay, I guess."

Read the following passage. What is the author's tone?
The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor is called nuclear
fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy elements which have many
protons and neutrons in their nuclei. Fission starts when a fast moving neutron
strikes a nucleus. The nucleus cannot take in the extra neutron, and the whole
nucleus breaks apart into two smaller nuclei.
uncertain/confused
scared/apprehensive
Factual/unbiashara

What are your first impressions of Dame Van Winkle? (what do you think of her?)

Bringing the 1930s to life and brightening beach memories in what ways is the setting of the film similar to the setting of the play

Which best states how the narrator’s point of view helps the reader understand the excerpt?
1,2,3,4

Professor Huosheng Hu's fish robots can swim around on their own. No one has to control them. Hu hopes to put some of the robots into the ocean. Like the other robots, the fish will have a job. They will look for pollution, like oil leaks from ships. Then people can come and clean the dirty water.

The robots will ___ pollution .

locate
avoid
remove
trap

How is reading informational text different from reading fiction or nonfiction?

The organization is better.
The language is more serious.
There is less coherence.
The purpose of the text is different.

orphans lonely beginnings reveal how parents shape a child’s brain, part a which of the following identifies the main idea of the text

Read the following excerpt from William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury:

As the scudding day passed overhead the dingy windows glowed and faded in ghostly retrograde. A car passed along the road outside, laboring in the sand, died away.

The author uses the word laboring to emphasize which idea?

A.
the work that the driver had completed that day
B.
the difficulty the car had in moving
C.
the dedication of the driver to the task at hand
D.
the amount of time the car had been in the shop

Does it take more power to walk quickly or climb stairs slowly?

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was CT scan done.
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Do you thing there are times when it is best to put a dream off?why or why not

Symbols help readers understand the larger themes of a story. One of the major themes of Joyce's "Araby" is the urge to escape the monotony of daily life. Which symbol in the story contributes most to this theme, and why? A. the bazaar because it represents the inaccessible land of freedom to the narrator B. Mangan's sister because she represents domesticity and routine to the narrator C. the marketplace because it represents the suburban lifestyle to the narrator D. the train ride because it represents freedom and renewal to the narrator

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What new idea can you form based on information in
the two excerpts?
O The sculptor of Figure met the sculptor of the Kota
figure.
O Abstract art is a new invention.
O Figure was sculpted before the Kota figure was
sculpted.
The human body is a common subject of art.

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Passive voice of He will be buying oranges in dozens​

To what family does Tybalt belong? (5 points)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Part 1

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
"I incline to, Cain's heresy*," he used to say. "I let my brother go to the devil in his quaintly 'own way.'" In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. And to such as these, so long as they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade of change in his demeanour.
No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer's way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common. It was reported by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said nothing, looked singularly dull, and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that, the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted.
*The biblical story of Cain and Abel is a story about two brothers who gave offerings to God. Abel’s offering was accepted by God, but Cain’s was not. Jealous, Cain killed his brother. When God asked Cain where Abel was, Cain said, "Am I my brother’s keeper?" By saying this, Cain implied that what his brother did was his own business. (Genesis 4:1-16)


Which line from the text shows that Mr. Utterson was often kind to those who needed it the most?
A "backward in sentiment"
B "austere with himself"
C "undemonstrative at the best"
D "approved tolerance for others"

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