We are each shaped by the people who gave us life. everything we are and all that we do can be traced back, in one way or
another, to early influences: parents, family, a home or the lack of a home. in my case, four figures from my childhood
to make me who i am, each giving me a gift that is unique: my father, my mother, my grandmother, and my grandfather. to
understand me, you have to know them.
the excerpt above is from page 35 of nothing's impossible: leadership lessons from inside and outside the classroom by
lorraine monroe. paraphrase, summarize, and quote the passage above. be sure to include in-text citations using the mla
style.

Read this excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.”tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one. which of these changes would make this excerpt more argumentative? using words that affect the audience’s sense of trustusing less repetition of certain words and phrasesincluding words that address logic and reasonincluding words that are charged with emotion