Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family encouraged black Americans to explore their past and helped to popularize oral history and family history in the United States. His writing reminds us that oral history recording taps into a vast, rich reservoir of oral traditions sustained through family, community and national memories.As a boy, Alex Haley spent his summers on his grandmother's front porch in Henning, Tennessee. listening to her and her sisters tell stories of the family's history back through the days of slavery. The "Furthest–Back person" they spoke of was an ancestor they called "the African," who was kidnapped in his native country, shipped to Annapolis, Maryland, and sold into slavery. He remembered hearing:"Yeah, boy, that African say his name was 'Kin-tay'; he say the banjo was 'ko,' an' the river 'Kamby-Bolong,' an' he was off choppin' some wood to make his drum when they grabbed 'im!"These stories stayed with young Alex throughout his life. And he became obsessed with finding his family's roots in Africa.With the help of some friends and a linguist from West Africa, he learned that some of the words in his grandmother's stories were like Mandinka words (a language spoken by some tribes), and that the river she spoke of as 'Kamby Bolong' was probably the Gambia River. Alex knew that he must get to the Gambia River.With the help of Gambian officials, he learned that a griot, or oral historian, knew the history of a Kin-tay family. Could this be his own family? Alex Haley began his own trip up the Gambia River to find out.
1) The subject is b. Kayla
2) The subject is a. I
Explanation: A subject is the noun performing an action at the beginning of the sentence
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Most dystopian novels are science fiction and show the world in a negative manner that urges for change in the way the world is going.
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Examples of dystopican novels are The Hunger Games, The Giver, and 1984 - all of these examples show how the world MIGHT turn out if society keeps going on the same path it's currently on.
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Fossils can be defined as remnants of plants and animals that have lived on the earth many years ago. Coal can be defined as a solid type of fossil fuel which is formed from decayed plants.
Coal arises from different plant debris such was roots, leaves, trees that settle in swamps, the seperation and gathering of these debris forms what is known as "peat". Folds of the peat covered by sediment is exposed to heat and pressure for millions of years to form coal.
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The businesswoman drank a hot mug of tea when she go home.
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"hot" refers to the tea when
