Read the excerpt from "W. E.B. Du Bois: Social Justice Leader."
Which statement contains explicit information from the
excerpt?
Du Bois graduated at the top of his high school class.
With the help of his community, he graduated from Fisk
University--a historically black university--in Nashville,
Tennessee. He later went on to get a bachelor of arts
and a doctorate from Harvard. He was the first African
American student to earn a doctorate at Harvard.
Living in Nashville had a significant effect on Du Bois,
because it allowed him to see firsthand the effects of
racism and Jim Crow laws on African American culture.
What he witnessed during his years at college helped
form the basis of his life's work in civil rights.
O Du Bois was a very intelligent and hard-working
student throughout his life.
Du Bois earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate
from Harvard University.
Du Bois might not have attended college without his
community's support.
Du Bois led the way for other African American
students to graduate from Harvard.

Which is it? the desert is than the mountains? 1. drier 2. more dry

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.

Analyze identify gandhi central claim in his letter. what key reasons does he provide to support his claim