The following passage (paragraph 16) adds to the buildup to the bus boycott mainly by E. D. Nixon and other blacks leaders wanted to take the entire bus segregation issue into federal court. They hoped to demonstrate that segregated buses were illegal under the U. S. Constitution. But first, they needed the strongest possible case-the arrest of a black rider who was above reproach, a person of unassailable character and reputation who could withstand the closest scrutiny.
A. Most black leaders were fearful of taking on the segregation laws, due to harsh punishments.

B. Claudette Colvin was embarrassed by civil rights leaders.

C. Claudette Colvin ultimately accepted segregation.

D. Black leaders intentionally sought out Rosa Parks to be a public face of the resistance.

Jackson is a very smart little boy he can count to twenty and is only two years old. complete, run on sentence or comma splice

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Which statement best describes the intended aesthetic impact of this excerpt?