In the final line of the poem, the speaker states, "i, too, am america." what does it mean to
be american? throughout history, how has america attempted to exclude certain groups of
people? do you think that america is more inclusive of various groups of people today? why
or why not?

Hillenbrand writes, “as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning” (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie’s narrative with information about japan and germany?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Can someone “think of a time you overcame a challenge or obstacle. describe the experience in two or three sentences”