PART A: Which statement best expresses a theme in the poem?

Americans have abandoned the original principles of welcoming immigrants because they do not respect other cultures.

People who are not in influential positions are afraid to challenge America and have the tendency to ask powerful people to represent them.

Despite discrimination in America, immigrants are not powerless and they have the capacity to create social change.

The responsibility of a journalist is to provide solutions to social and political concerns in a society

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians