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The correct answer is C) To introduce the reader to a famous American
If the author begins this article with a story of George Washington Carver was because he introduced the reader to a famous American.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an African American inventor and researcher who was a professor of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was the Director of the Agriculture School in the Institute in 1896 after Booker T. Washing had hired him. He did plenty of research on the use of peanuts to produce many products.
The stronger countries in Europe in the 1400s and 1500s - England, Spain, France and Portugal. :D!
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ben Carson, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Martin O'Malley, Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Jim Gilmore, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, Lincoln Chafee, Bobby Jindal.
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His ideas discredited Indian culture, language and literature even as its assumptions of moral superiority authorised and justified the presence of the British in India. The current system of education, was introduced and funded by the British in the 19th century, following recommendations by Thomas Babington Macaulay.