Title of work, what project, and what class, I'm pretty sure
The first time he say a slave being whipped
Assuming this is in regard to "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, and "I, Too", by Langston Hughes.
The main point that Hughes makes in "I too (Sing, America)" is that the experience of many marginalized groups are not acknowledged in the national narrative. He directs this at Whitman's poem, pointing the many groups he does not mention singing. Hughes makes the point that American needs to celebrate all its people, and not just the ones who had a voice at the time.
Best answer is D) <span>America needs to celebrate its people.
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I'm not sure about the rest but I'm pretty sure images belongs to "transforms theme into pictures"
The linking verb is 'because'