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The question is from the newsela article, <em>"Missteps lead publishing industry to review diversity effort."</em>
The answers are:
- (A) The latest results showed the industry is around 75 percent white and mostly female.
- (C) Cummins is not of Mexican heritage but visited the country and migrant shelters along the border for book research. In a New York Times op-ed in 2016, she wrote, "My family is mostly white." She has one Puerto Rican grandparent.
- (B) to demonstrate the effectiveness of a diversity program aimed at increasing diversity in publishing.
- (C) She would disagree and note the changes she has observed since beginning her career.
Explanation:
- The information, "<em>The children's book publisher Lee & Low released a survey of people who work in publishing. The latest results showed the industry is around 75 percent white and mostly female." </em>conveys that empirical data supports the claim that the publishing industry is mostly white.
- In the introductory paragraph, the major concern of the critics is conveyed in the line, "Critics of "American Dirt" claim its story makes mistakes in describing Mexican life and culture. The misrepresentation of Mexican culture in<em> "American Dirt" </em>can be accredited to the facts that Cummins is neither Mexican nor was the cultural research adequate.
- Michaela T. Glover is one of the interns at the United Negro College Fund internship program. The lines,<em> "The organization WeNeedDiverseBooks works with publishers and agents to recruit interns. The program began with five interns in 2015 and will likely place 15-20 this summer. Out of 44 interns, 39 have since graduated from college and 30 have found full-time work in publishing, according to the organization.
" </em>convey that the program is working to diversify the publishing industry.
- Tracy Sherrod conveys her publishing experience in the lines, "I first came into publishing in the 1980s and at that time it was believed that black people didn't read. That statement was made to me multiple times, so we've come a long way," she said. "We're growing as an industry, but there will be some growing pains." Tracy Sherrod believes that the industry is growing.
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I think that this means that even if you're technically in the geographically best and socially highest place in the inside you may not behave properly. So even if those that are given to you are great, if you cannot represent them, they have no reason to deserve them.
(hope that's right and helpful)
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"Clear a piece of land to plant tomatoes, peas and onion,"
mother told us.
Explanation:
direct speech are words said by the person
The sentence presented above is an example of a complex sentence based on its structure. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent one. In the given the independent clause is the man was already listening to his new iPod and the dependent clause is ready to go out for his daily jog around Central Park.
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George Orwell is comparing the farm animals to the Soviet Union. He is trying to convey the idea of power and the demoralization that comes along with it. He communicates irony with the readers through the animals being 'punished' for being power hungry. The animals end up mistreating each other, due to their infatuation for authority. Satire is used to show the selfishness of the animals. The power makes them hypocrites for using the same punishments that they hated when they were used against themselves. Irony is shown through the denseness of the society they live in. The readers know a lot more about what is happening in the story, than the characters do.
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