Read the excerpt from "a quilt of a country."the new york of my children is no more balkanized, probably less so, than the philadelphia of my father, in which jewish boys would walk several blocks out of their way to avoid the irish divide of chester avenue. (i was the product of a mixed marriage, across barely bridgeable lines: an italian girl, an irish boy. how quaint it seems now, how incendiary then.) the brooklyn of francie nolan's famous tree, the newark of which portnoy complained, even the uninflected wasp suburbs of cheever's characters: they are ghettos, pure and simple. do the cambodians and the mexicans in california coexist less easily today than did the irish and italians of massachusetts a century ago? you know the answer. what technique does quindlen use to support the idea that america is less polarized now than it was in past history?

What does reverend hale find suspicious about john proctor

Malcolm x's attitude towards the dictionary could best be described as a) apathetic b) dumbfounded c) awestruck d) disinterested

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.