Alice Walker, In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens.. What is the effect of the fairly long jean timer quotation at the beginning of the essay? Does walker criticize him or cite him as an exemplar?

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no its not a run on sentence however i think you meant wet suits not sours also a run on sentence would be like surfers surf all winter long in southern california by using wet sours to keep them warm and the live their all year long  

answer: common sense was the pamphlet that thomas paine used to convince reluctant americans to abandon the goal of reconciling with britain and to accept that independence was the only option to preserve their liberty.