A letter home: Pretend you are a African-American teenager from the North visiting family members in either Mississippi or Alabama during the 50's or 60's. You are to write a letter back to your family about your experiences in the Deep South. This letter needs to be in first person, a young black teenager. Be sure that it is clear some of the challenges you are facing in the Deep South that you do not face in Indianapolis during this time period. Your letter should be at least 300 words. I don't feel comfortable writing this, so I hope someone else can.

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

12. why do you think that using a conversational tone with plain language when writing businesses messages is a good idea?