![]() We always think that we need to prioritize everything else first. Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games. We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer. ![]() We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities. So many things try to push their way into being more important. Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human. Read the excerpt from a speech to the school board about the art department. "Art is the foundation of what it means to be a human." "We should not cut the funding to the school's art department, because the students will suffer." "We need to refocus ourselves and reevaluate our priorities." "Everyone thinks that art class is just fun and games." "But it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives." Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select two options. ![]() But it is everything else that will suffer when we lack art and beauty in our lives. Alvarez explains how she knew that her mother would appreciate the novel she wrote.Read the excerpt from a speech to the school board about the art department. Alvarez explains how her mother's reaction to her novel provoked a rare moment of peace between them. Alvarez realizes that, through her writing, she has finally won her mother's respect. How does the author develop the central idea across these paragraphs? Alvarez describes how writing the novel brought her and her mother closer together. If there is such a thing as genetic justice that courses through the generations and finally manifests itself full-blown in a family moment, there it was. It was one of the few times since l had learned to talk that I did not try to answer my mother back. "I don't care what happens to us! I'm so proud of you for writing this book." I stood in my kitchen in Vermont, stunned, relishing her praise and listening to her cry. It was like I was reliving it all," she said sobbing. Days later, my mother called me up to tell me she had just finished the novel. I inscribed a copy to both Mami and Papi with a note: "Thank you for having instilled in me through your sufferings a desire for freedom and justice." I mailed the package and-what I seldom do except in those moments when I need all the help I can get-I made the sign of the cross as I exited the post office. ![]() When the novel came out, I decided to go ahead and risk her anger. Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez. Memmott presents facts about the dictatorship objectively, while Alvarez gives details about how it affected people. Memmott gives an anecdote to tell about the dictatorship's cruelty, while Alvarez tells about her family. Memmott tells about one event that occurred, while Alvarez tells about the dictatorship as a whole. Which statement best compares how the two authors address this topic? Memmott writes well after the events occurred, while Alvarez writes while the events are occurring. Later, I found out that this very saying had been scratched on the lintel of the entrance of the SIM's torture center at La Cuarenta. To our many questions about what was going on, my mother always had the ready answer, "En boca cerrada no entran moscas." No flies fly into a closed mouth. In December 1960, four months after our arrival, Time magazine reported the murder of the three Mirabal sisters, who along with their husbands had started the national underground Dominican Republic. Whenever Ia situaciĆ³n on the island came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices. "A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez: During my early teen years in this country, I knew very little about what was actually going on in the Dominican Republic. They were kept in the dark by Trujillo's henchmen. Even there, many Dominicans never knew about what happened in early October 1937. But the "parsley massacre" went mostly unnoticed outside Hispaniola. As many as 20,000 people are thought to have been killed on orders given by Rafael Trujillo. It was one of the 20th Century's least-remembered acts of genocide. "Remembering to Never Forget: Dominican Republic's 'Parsley Massacre'" by Mark Memmott: Seventy-five years ago, thousands of Haitians were murdered in the Dominican Republic by a brutal dictator.
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