Choose the statement below that BEST states the central idea of the text the most daring of our leaders A: The lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s were the most effective form of protest to end segregation in the south.

B: Duane Nash didn’t understand why segregation was still allowed in the South Since it did not exist where she grew up in Chicago.

C: Diane Nash, a college student at Fisk University, became a civil rights activist in the 1960s, helping to organize nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins to help end segregation in the south.

D: The civil rights leader Diane Nash, never wanted to be an activist or a leader in the movement because she had been raised to stay in the background, like most young women of that time.

Which excerpt best represents the central conflict of “ everyday use”

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Write a 250- word essay in which you explain the significance of the different narrative voices in “the way to wealth.” use evidence from both texts to support your response