Ever since the founding fathers of our nation dreamed this noble dream, america has been . . tragically divided against herself. on the one hand we have proudly professed the principles of democracy, and on the other hand we have sadly practiced the very antithesis of those principles. indeed slavery and segregation have been strange paradoxes in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal. —"the american dream," dr. martin luther king, jr. what reason does king give in this passage to explain how americans have failed to come together for equality? he points out that americans have proudly supported the principles of democracy he points out that the founding fathers’ dream was a noble one. he points out that slavery and segregation show that everyone is not considered equal.

Explain how dave’s search for adulthood in ,the man who was almost a man” reflects the africa-american desire to escape the poverty of the south at the time the story was written.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man

Compare moishe as he is described at the begginning of the memoir with moishe after his escape from death in the forest