So, because it connects the two clauses.
1. Watts terms is a fateful act. There are no retractions or future deliverances. Watts, like other black ghettos across the country, is for ambitious youths, a transient status. Once they left, there's no returning. It is regarded as no place to make a career for those who have a future.
2.There's puzzlement in the minds of those in Watts when he was home last summer. Rumors spread quickly that he was an FBI agent, that he was a suspect because he was not supposed to return. Some people said he was either a federal agent or a fool for returning to Watts by choice.
3. Stanley Sanders was a Yankee foreign student or a Rhodes scholar.
4. The typical European response was unlike anything he had seen before. They had no homes or business to worry about protecting. They wanted to know why Negroes did not riot more often. As the only negro in the summer session he felt awkward for a time because he was being asked questions about the black man in America that no one ever asked him before. The author is brave for standing to what he thinks he deserved. He didn't let race or social background dictate his future. He fought for his right to education and he deserve every achievement he got despite the racial comments he got.
An example of a protagonist from the characters in American Born Chinese is Danny. The other
protagonist from the story are The Monkey King and Jin.
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</span><span>To add, these guys are clearly protagonists because they're the center
of each story in the book. Even if they're not always likeable, we're stuck
with them and their journey into deeper, better versions of themselves. They go
through all sorts of character transformations in order to learn the greatest
lesson in the book: be yourself.</span>
Verb?
I would need the other part of the question to answer
An element in an effective argument is logical support because if you are trying to make you're argument effective, you need logical support to help your argument. Hope this helps!