Reading" is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. ... Reading is a receptive skill - through it we receive information. But the complex process of reading also requires the skill of speaking, so that we can pronounce the words that we read.
In paragraph 2 the idea of idealism is naïvebut still it makes sense to his credo which down the years grew to have some cynicism.
Explanation:
The Credo has grown shorter in recent years—sometimes cynical, sometimes comical, and sometimes bland—but I keep working at it. Recently I set out to get the statement of personal belief down to one page in simple terms, fully understanding the naïve idealism that implied.
The whole credo of idealism has sense and over the years has grown into cynicism.
At the beginning of the paragraph he uses uppercase letters to put an extra emphasis to his point from the start. He does this by exaggerating that all that is needed to know is little things. He uses the phrase “graduate-school mountain” by trying to get the reader to understand that the highest level of learning is not needed to know about life and how to handle it, or what to do in it. As he wrote the list he wrote it as a child from kindergarten whose mind is still innocent but all those steps of life are well needed and enough to be happy.
Answer:
undermined, Congress was not able to punish the states that violated the civil rights of the African Americans.
Explanation:
The 15th amendment in the US constitution grated the right to vote for the African Americans. But the court said that the right to vote to the African Americans was not properly granted, it prohibited the exclusion from voting on racial grounds.
The Supreme Court undermined the 14th and 15th amendment as the court ruled that the Congress was not able to punish or force the states that violates the civil rights of the African American people. These amendments was made to rectify all the injustices made to the African American people which had resulted from the slavery period.
