which excerpt from "the life you save may be your own" contains an example of a simile? after a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of mr. shiftlet’s car. "fifteen, sixteen," the old woman said. the girl was nearly thirty but because of her innocence it was impossible to guess. "i was raised thataway and there ain’t a thing i can do about it. my old mother taught me how to do." "that wouldn’t hardly pay for more than the gas and the hotel," he said. "it wouldn’t feed her."

Which perminant civil rights leader would have disagreed most with washington's approach to solving the problem of racial inequality in the south?

Which best explains why the supreme court’s decision in plessy v. ferguson was unconstitutional? the supreme court’s ruling allowed states to deny equal protection to any person within its jurisdiction. since the 14th amendment did not make concessions for people born outside the us, the supreme court’s decision could not be applied. the supreme court’s decision gave individual states the freedom to make their own laws in relation to non-whites. since segregation laws did not provide equal protections or liberties to non-whites, the ruling was not consistent with the 14th amendment.

Read the quote by jane addams. "the settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems in a great city." which of the following best describes what addams meant by the settlement"? chicago immigration hull house the social gospel