What would be an effective claim for your presentation?
Every town holds a diversity day, and it's important that our town also holds one
A diversity day is a day when members of all the different cultures in a community get together and celebrate the
interesting parts of each culture.
A diversity day would help bring the community together by celebrating the exciting parts of our town's different
cultures
This presentation on diversity is designed to convince.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme