I need help editing this paragraph or someone please make it sound better People should all be considered equal regardless of what they look like, talk like, or even do that makes them who they are. ¨In 2013, a neighborhood-watch volunteer in Florida shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black 17-year-old. Martin was simply walking to his father's house from a convenience store where he had bought iced tea and candy.¨(Bloomberg 1) This was an innocent dude and he got killed. ¨Incidents of police brutality have been flashpoints for demonstrations for decades. In 1992, for example, the beating of black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles set off six days of riots.¨(Bloomberg 1). Racism comes in many different forms and can be seen in many different ways.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile