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Choose the sentence with the correct subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. a. martha spend her days gossiping with everyone who walks by. b. each of the ushers in the wedding had to wear his rented tuxedo. c. the marching band don't raise enough money for its trip to the rose bowl parade. d. neither my sister nor i was happy when her had to move last year.

What is the message of “your laughter”

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.