Summarize in one sentence The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure.
Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of
bigotry. Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of the other. Children
learn in social studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women,
the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown
thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful.
Perhaps they understand it at this moment, when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a
time of reflection on enormous blessings.

You are reading an informational text for english class, and you find a lot of words you don't know. your teacher says you don't need to look up all of them in the dictionary, only the ones you need to get the main point of the text. how could text features you figure out which words to look up?

In the list below, which plot event appears out of order? setting rising action falling action climax resolution setting rising action falling action resolution

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance