Which selection from an expository essay is most likely a topic sentence? A. For all these reasons, babysitting is an ideal job for any teenager.
B. Another reason babysitting is an ideal job is that you usually get
paid in cash.
C. Have you ever had a job as a babysitter?
D. In the town of Palm Valley, four out of five teens babysat at least
once in the past year.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.