Read the excerpt from This Land Was Made for You and Me.

Promoters and club owners wanted him to follow their tightly written scripts and sing the melodious, popular songs that were on the radio. Whenever they came at him with their hands full of cash, Woody ran the other way. “I had rather sound like the cab drivers cursing at one another, like the longshoremen yelling, like the cowhands whooping and like the lone wolf barking, than to sound like a slick, smooth tongued, oily lipped, show person.”

This excerpt demonstrates that Woody Guthrie used his life experiences to create music about the

A. lives of everyday people.
B. beauty of the natural world.
C. lack of compassion in the country.
D. most popular ideas of the time period.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

How can behavioral science be applied in improving public health? a. by tracking a disease to determine its sourceb. by creating promotions that improve health habitscboth by tracking a disease to determine its source and by creating promotions that improve health habitsd. neither by tracking a disease to determine its source or by creating promotions that improve health habits

The knights of the round table were bound by the code of chivalry that called for loyalty to king, god, and lady.  in which set of lines from  sir gawain and the green knight  does sir gawain describe upholding this code?