Read the excerpt from The Dark Game. Which inference can a reader make based on the
information in the excerpt?
Cable messages from Europe to the United States traveled
through transatlantic cables that passed deep in the English
Channel. The British saw the cables as an opportunity to
gain access to secret diplomatic messages sent from Berlin
to its ambassador in Washington, D. C. Knowing they
couldn't tap the cables the way they could tap phone lines,
the British did the next best thing. The cable ship Telconia
cut all five of the cables that carried communications through
the channel. To make sure that the sabotage had a lasting
effect, the Telconia rolled up a few of the cable ends on her
drums and carried them to England. This act of sabotage
was Great Britain's first offensive act of the war.
The Germans often sent important messages concerning
their war efforts to their ambassador in Washington, D. C.
O Although the British cut the underwater cables, the
Germans planned to lay new ones as quickly as possible.
O Without the underwater cables, the Germans had no way
of communicating with their ambassadors.
The German ambassador in Washington, D. C. was
unaware that the cables had been cut by the British.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.

What is the effect of the haiku structure on this poem?   how does the line structure describe the subject(s)?   and how does a haiku compare to a rhyming and longer poem in terms of its effect on you as a reader?

Describe how the festival of spring bring out the latent joy in human nature?