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Reading & Writing · Craft and Structure · 72 questions · every one comes with a full explanation.

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  1. 1Early in the Great Migration of 1910–1970, which involved the mass migration of Black people from the southern to the northern United States, political activist and Chicago DefendeMedium · Craft and Structure
  2. 2Archeological excavation of Market Street Chinatown, a nineteenth-century Chinese American community in San Jose, California, provided the first evidence that Asian food products wMedium · Craft and Structure
  3. 3Using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Mercedes López-Morales and colleagues measured the wavelengths of light traveling through the atmosphere of WASP-39b, an exMedium · Craft and Structure
  4. 4Yawn contagion occurs when one individual yawns in response to another's yawn. Studies of this behavior in primates have focused on populations in captivity, but biologist ElisabetMedium · Craft and Structure
  5. 5The following text is from Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale. Mr. Verloc is navigating the London streets on his way to a meeting. Before reaching KnightsMedium · Craft and Structure
  6. 6In 1973, poet Miguel Algarín started inviting other writers who, like him, were Nuyorican—a term for New Yorkers of Puerto Rican heritage—to gather in his apartment to present theiMedium · Craft and Structure
  7. 7The following text is from the 1923 poem "Black Finger" by Angelina Weld Grimké, a Black American writer. A cypress is a type of evergreen tree. I have just seen a most beautiful Medium · Craft and Structure
  8. 8The following text is adapted from Charles Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times. Coketown is a fictional town in England. [Coketown] contained several large streets all very like one Medium · Craft and Structure
  9. 9The following text is adapted from Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1902 novel The Sport of the Gods. Joe and some of his family members have recently moved to New York City. [Joe] was wildMedium · Craft and Structure
  10. 10Musician Joni Mitchell, who is also a painter, uses images she creates for her album covers to emphasize ideas expressed in her music. For the cover of her album Turbulent Indigo (Medium · Craft and Structure
  11. 11The following text is from the 1924 poem "Cycle" by D'Arcy McNickle, who was a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. There shall be new roads wending, A new beatMedium · Craft and Structure
  12. 12For his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote songs grounded in traditional soul and folk music, then accompanied them with futuristic synthesizer arrangementMedium · Craft and Structure
  13. 13The following text is from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1910 poem "The Earth's Entail." No matter how we cultivate the land, Taming the forest and the prairie free; No matter howMedium · Craft and Structure
  14. 14The following text is adapted from Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto's 1925 memoir A Daughter of the Samurai. As a young woman, Sugimoto moved from feudal Japan to the United States. The stanMedium · Craft and Structure
  15. 15In the Here and Now Storybook (1921), educator Lucy Sprague Mitchell advanced the then controversial idea that books for very young children should imitate how they use language, sMedium · Craft and Structure
  16. 16The following text is from Charlotte Forten Grimké's 1888 poem "At Newport." Oh, deep delight to watch the gladsome waves Exultant leap upon the rugged rocks; Ever repulsed, yet eMedium · Craft and Structure
  17. 17When ancient oak planks were unearthed during subway construction in Rome, Mauro Bernabei and his team examined the growth rings in the wood to determine where these planks came frMedium · Craft and Structure
  18. 18The following text is from Sarah Orne Jewett's 1899 short story "Martha's Lady." Martha is employed by Miss Pyne as a maid. Miss Pyne sat by the window watching, in her best dresMedium · Craft and Structure
  19. 19The following text is from Walt Whitman's 1860 poem "Calamus 24." I HEAR it is charged against me that I seek to destroy institutions; But really I am neither for nor against instMedium · Craft and Structure
  20. 20Works of moral philosophy, such as Plato's Republic or Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, are partly concerned with how to live a morally good life. But philosopher Jonathan Barnes arMedium · Craft and Structure
  21. 21Industrial activity is often assumed to be a threat to wildlife, but that isn't always so. Consider the silver-studded blue butterfly (Plebejus argus): as forest growth has reducedMedium · Craft and Structure
  22. 22The following text is from Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables. Anne, an eleven-year-old girl, has come to live on a farm with a woman named Marilla in Nova ScotMedium · Craft and Structure
  23. 23The following text is adapted from Aphra Behn's 1689 novel The Lucky Mistake. Atlante and Rinaldo are neighbors who have been secretly exchanging letters through Charlot, Atlante'sMedium · Craft and Structure
  24. 24The following text is adapted from Gwendolyn Bennett's 1926 poem "Street Lamps in Early Spring." Night wears a garment All velvet soft, all violet blue... And over her face she Medium · Craft and Structure
  25. 25The following text is adapted from Susan Glaspell's 1912 short story "'Out There.'" An elderly shop owner is looking at a picture that he recently acquired and hopes to sell. It dMedium · Craft and Structure
  26. 26The following text is from Herman Melville's 1854 novel The Lightning-rod Man. The stranger still stood in the exact middle of the cottage, where he had first planted himself. HisMedium · Craft and Structure
  27. 27Horizontal gene transfer occurs when an organism of one species acquires genetic material from an organism of another species through nonreproductive means. The genetic material caMedium · Craft and Structure
  28. 28By combining Indigenous and classical music, Cree composer and cellist Cris Derksen creates works that reflect the diverse cultural landscape of Canada. For her album Orchestral PoMedium · Craft and Structure
  29. 29Part of the Atacama Desert in Peru has surprisingly rich plant life despite receiving almost no rainfall. Moisture from winter fog sustains plants once they're growing, but the soiMedium · Craft and Structure
  30. 30Michelene Pesantubbee, a historian and citizen of the Choctaw Nation, has identified a dilemma inherent to research on the status of women in her tribe during the 1600s and 1700s: Medium · Craft and Structure
  31. 31Many archaeologists assume that large-scale engineering projects in ancient societies required an elite class to plan and direct the necessary labor. However, recent discoveries, sMedium · Craft and Structure