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The option which best explains how Nye's text structure helps establish her voice in the excerpt is:
A. Nye relates a story about something she heard to emphasize the point she wants to make about heritage.
Explanation:
In "Speaking Arabic," Naomi Shihab Nye discusses heritage. In the particular excerpt we are analyzing here, she relates something she heard a man say once about wanting to have a heritage. Her purpose in relating his words is to address people's need to have a fixed, specific identity. Being of mixed ethnicities, Nye wants to show that diversity is also an identity, a heritage. That is why she also mentions the different food stores and the American trees. The man is surrounded by heritage but is blinded to it by his need to define and specify it.
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D. The systems draw on both the arts and natural science.
Explanation:
According to the passage, systems of philosophy retain a certain relative validity because they draw on both the arts and natural science as they are not solely dependent on either the facts and theories of natural science or the classical approach to art but use both aspects well.
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A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow).
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There are elements of truth in each of the options, but C is the only correct answer.
While Ben Gunn hints to Jim that he has already found the treasure, claiming that he's rich, Jim doesn't catch on to this at the time. Because Jim left the stockade to recover and beach the Hispaniola, he wasn't present to learn Dr. Livesey negotiated with Ben Gunn to relocate the stockade group to Gunn's cave, where...
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feeling or showing sudden shock or alarm.
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