Which of the following pieces if evidence best supports Stevenson's claim from chapter 8 that children whose stories he shares "weren't exceptional" (Stevenson 160) 1. "By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the politics of fear and anger sweeping the country and fueling mass incarceration was turning its attention to children" (Stevenson 159)
2. Trinsas mental and physical health made her life in prison extremely challenging (Stevenson 160)
3. "there were thousands of children like them scattered throughout prisons in the united states" (Stevenson 160)
4. "the difficulties outside antonios home were compounded by severe domestic abuse inside the home" ( Stevenson 154)

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.

i believe the answer is d

well, number 1, the 1920s was not economically prosperous until the start of the lend-lease act, which employed large amounts of people in producing equipment for the allies.

b. world war ii is your answer, because wwi had already ended at 1918, and the cold war was after 1945.

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