Identify the tone of the following descriptive paragraph. the scene that stretched in front of me offered a hint of shelter from the bitter cold. i stood on the icy, snow-covered shore. to my left stretched the waters of the mighty ocean. the shoreline curved ahead of me to the left, reaching a short arm out into the unrelenting cold water. waves rolled in and frothily snapped at the edge of the land. i had no way to get back home. a. serious c. concerned b. lighthearted d. despair

If you were starving, what would you do for food? "condensed milk" tells the story of a political prisoner in a russian gulag (a forced-labor camp) who is faced with a choice: stay in the gulag—working and starving—or escape from the prison and risk dying. what choice would you make? historical context: from 1929 to 1953, joseph stalin was the dictator of the soviet union. his goal was to transform the soviet union from a poor society into a world superpower. he used terror and violence to rule, and under his reign, millions of his own people died in work camps, from starvation due to famine, or by execution. select a detail to support the idea that russian gulags treated prisoners cruelly. prisoners faced choices. prisoners had to work. prisoners tried to escape. prisoners were starving.

Which best explains how the viewpoint in the greenberg interview differed from that in the informational text on thurgood marshall. a. the informational article provides an insider's view of the brown vs board of education case; the perspective of the greenberg interview is more distant.

3. what differences do you see in the statistics between the two cities? what factors might account for the differences you see?