Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez. She was plain Anne – that is, only her name was plain, for she turned ou
t to be the pale, blond “American beauty” in the family. The only Hispanic thing about her was the affectionate nicknames her boyfriends sometimes gave her. Anita, or as one goofy guy used to sing to her to the tune of the banana advertisement, Anita Banana. Later, during her college years in the late sixties, there was a push to pronounce Third World names correctly. I remember calling her long distance at her group house and a roommate answering. “Can I speak to Ana?” I asked, pronouncing her name the American way. “Ana?” The man’s voice hesitated. “Oh! You must mean Ah-nah!” What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that Alvarez’s little sister Ana may have found it less difficult to integrate her Dominican and American identities during her college years? The only Hispanic thing about her was the affectionate nicknames her boyfriends sometimes gave her. Anita, or as one goofy guy used to sing to her to the tune of the banana advertisement, Anita Banana. Later, during her college years in the late sixties, there was a push to pronounce Third World names correctly. “Can I speak to Ana?” I asked, pronouncing her name the American way.
<em>Later, during her college years in the late sixties, there was a push to pronounce Third World names correctly.
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<u>Explanation:</u>
In the narrative, Julia moved from Dominican to NY, together with her family. It was amazing that most people used to mispronounce the name of the family. For instance, when her family arrived in the immigration office, the officer would be able to mispronounce it. Julia is so eager to correct the officer from uttering the words wrongly, and she instead repeats it herself so that the officer gets the correct pronunciation.
He took a tone that was quite lyrical and expressed the need to end the war.
In his gettysburg address Lincoln started to redefine the Civil War as a struggle for human equality not only to save the Union. He extolled the memory of those who died during the Gettysburg battle.
In his second inauguration adress the defeat of the South was very close and he tried to appease his audience by advocating a fair treatment of the South.
I believe the answer to your question is B) Over 5,000 years ago, ancient Egyptians used wind to sail ships on the Nile River.
this sentence from the passage would be irrelevant because it does not contain usable information on wind turbines as well as the fact that it is a time in history therefore it is irrelevant because you need information that is relatively up-to-date.
