Answer:
A piano
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Explanation:
James Weldon Johnson's fictional "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," tells the story of a biracial man and his 'journey to understand and accept his identity. The story deals with themes of race, acceptance, and understanding one's real identity.
While the narrator seemed confused about who his real father is and why he is not with them, he also gets to meet him and even shows his musical prowess. A couple of weeks after he met his father for the first time, he got a piano delivered to their residence. At first, he was confused, revealing he almost<em> "[told] the men on the wagon that they had made a mistake"</em>, his mother told him that it was actually a gift from his father.
Thus, the gift was a piano, <em>"a beautiful, brand-new, upright piano."</em>
In my view, the correct answer would be “a photo of a landfill full of clothing and a graph showing statistics on how much clothing gets thrown away”.
Indeed, most people do not react to abstract figures, numbers and/or charts. They need to actively be able to visualize the environmental consequences of their consumer choices. When you put them in front of mere numbers
Denial will be very easy due to the conceptual nature of the stimulus. Visual stimuli accompanied by the said figures on the other hand denies such denial in so much that it adds a more concrete piece of evidence to support the empirical and scientific findings. Numbers mean nothing, that is why a Wall Street trader is willing to sacrifice billions of people’s lives in the search of profit but when the effects of such policies on humans and their environment is shown to him and the general public, not only is he forced to make a an ethical choice, such choice will be easily and visually understood by the larger public.
Teens in the West love to wear Nike shoes but would they like to continue wearing them if they can see not only the figures concerning child labor and environmental disaster but the pictures showing the children toiling 16 hours a day for a few cents of a dollar for tennis shoes that cost 100 dollars in the USA?
I have described myself as always having been imbued with a
fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.
In this line, the author is exploring man versus nature. The
word or phrase from this passage that best demonstrated the conflict between
man and nature is perhaps ‘penetrate’ or specifically ‘penetrate the secrets of
nature’.
‘Penetrate’ means to succeed in forcing a way into or
through. This signifies that the persona in this passage wants to understand
the mysteries that surround nature.
