Read these excerpts from we beat the street.

"then the three of you get out of here. colleges come to this school every day, looking for good students, and you three jokers let it all pass you by."

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"you’ll be four years older whether you go to college or not. why not fill up those four years with something valuable? "

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george thought back to miss johnson, who had said almost the exact same thing to him way back in third grade.

what central idea in the story do the details in these excerpts best support?

teachers usually know what goals their students want to achieve.
having fun can prevent people from achieving their dreams.
people should make the most of the opportunities that are given to them.
young people who want to succeed need to take the advice of others.

Read the 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 choice best describes the purpose of this text? to persuade readers to oppose the censorship of literature to inform readers about censorship in a specific country to entertain readers with stories about censorship to motivate readers to speak out against censorship mark this and return

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

What do we know about the mother in “two kinds”? select all that apply. she came from china. she had two daughters who died. her mother, father, and first husband are dead. she is part japanese.