His aunts and grandmothers taught him to count while they sorted out the materials used to make the abstract designs in the native baskets. He learned his basic numbers by helping his father count and sort the rocks to be used in the sweat-lodge seven rocks for a medicine sweat, say, or thirteen for the summer solstice ceremony. And he was taught mathematics by counting the sticks we use in our traditional native hand game.

Medicine Grizzlybear Lake, "An Indian Father's Plea"
Why does Lake use this example of Wind-Wolf's education within the tribe in "An Indian Father's Plea"?
A. To prove to the teacher that Wind-Wolf is not a slow learner but has just learned things differently
B. To explain that his son is not intelligent enough to continue to attend the white man's school
C. To appeal to any prejudices the teacher has about American Indians and their culture
D. To make the teacher feel bad about Wind-Wolf's lack of formal education and try harder

When harry describes hans as having a naive face which appeared very quick and intelligent, this can be considered a what? metaphor paradox ironic statement symbol

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Read the excerpt from rena's promise: two sisters in auschwitz. “i have a favor to ask of you, andrzej . . this is very difficult for me, but i must ask. it is no longer safe in tylicz for rena. her mother and i are worried for her safety every day.” “i heard what happened last night, mr. kornreich. i understand your concern.” “i have no money to pay you for this favor.” “sir, i would not take any money from you. she is my friend since childhood. i will do whatever you ask to your daughter.” “ you.” papa paused, stroking his chin where his beard should have been. “you seem like a man of your word. if you would bring rena across the border to slovakia, her mother and i might find sleep at night.” which best summarizes the excerpt? although he does not trust andrzej, rena’s father fears for his daughter’s life and finally agrees to leave her with him. slovakia is the only safe place for the jews of europe, and andrzej has agreed to take rena there. rena’s father asks andrzej to take her to safety in slovakia, and he agrees to do so. after much deliberation, rena’s father pays a polish man to take her safely across the border to slovakia. mark this and return