In lift every voice and sing, which of the following best expresses the theme of the entire poem? a) in order to maintain a healthy body and outlook, people should gather to walk and to sing as a way to encourage one another. b) a group of people who have a shared and difficult experience can move forward collectively toward a better future. c) it is necessary to enlist the of people in power in order to achieve goals in a timely manner. d) knowing what has occurred in the past can influence a group of people in developing better plans and goals.

The poem  “Lift Every Song and Sing” is written by James W. Johnson and is considered the anthem for black nationalists. It was written to empower the colored schoolchildren of Jacksonville.

Question:  In Lift Every Voice and Sing, which of the following best expresses the theme of the entire poem?

d) Knowing what has occurred in the past can influence a group of people in developing better plans and goals.

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.