Which of the following statements express a possible theme or themes in Hughes’s essay? Check all that apply. African American artists should express black experience in their works.

African American artists should ignore issues of race in their works.

African American artists should take pride in their heritage rather than trying to think like whites.

African American artists should use only blues and jazz as influences.

African American intellectuals are wrong to consider white culture superior to their own.

Iam for the "immediate, unconditional, and universal" enfranchisement of the black man, in ev [loud applause.] without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slay liberty as a privilege, not as a right. he is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protec how does the repetition of the phrase "without this" support the paragraph's argument? it reinforces the idea that without equality in the us, the idea of a free society is a joke. it suggests that a free society is possible, with or without equal rights for all people. it indicates that douglass would be content without material possessions or status. it proposes that slavery will not be abolished in the us without the support of all citizens.

This poem describes a train as if it were a horse. what literacy device does the poet use in this poem?

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.