According to Quindlen, “slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses” illustrate America’s

“way of writing” should be replaced with “writing style"

“idea” should be replaced with “purpose.”

maybe   “people from a long time ago” should be replaced with “elizabethans.”

by explaining that it took the same total time to travel by plane as it did by train

ck - common knowledge

nd - needs documentation

ck - a laptop computer is more portable than a desktop computer.

nd - one of the themes in i heard the owl call my name is the dying of the tribe’s way of life.

nd - cell phones communicate using satellites orbiting the earth.

ck - robert frost wrote poetry.

nd - “once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,”

nd - a scientist’s opinion of the global warming issue