TROLLEY PROBLEM Situation: You are driving the Streetcar in downtown. The brakes are not working, so you cannot stop. You see five people standing on the tracks straight ahead. You can turn on to another track, but there is one person on that track. Anyone you hit with the streetcar WILL die.

Question:
Do you do nothing and kill 5 people, or do you turn the streetcar and kill 1 person? Why would you make this choice?
(THIS IS A HARD QUESTION FOR PHILOSOPHY)

Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?