Anne explains her plan for helping the neighborhood children.
Answer:
Harlem looked like a place where there was only bad influence for young people and teenagers. Going into drugs and dropping school were the common in this age. It sounded sad, if we could say, the environment was either playing on the street or getting drugs. For Baldwin it was working with young students and finding similarities between his brother and his students.
Explanation:
Life in the Bronx has always been difficult. People have poor living conditions and children are not supervised because they have working mothers or a single parent at home. The wander around with friends, who are in the same situation, and are not much help. They get into drugs easily and it is very hard for them to continue their studies. Jazz was like a hope, something with which one got deeply involved and could express one´s feelings. In this case Jazz saved Baldwin´s brother from getting lost in the world of drugs.
The answer would be A. Adjacent.
Adjacent mean next to or adjoining something.
Answer:
Before arriving to the United States, Gurung's life was always in danger: "Many of us were tortured and imprisoned. We had no choice but to flee to Nepal to save our lives".
He was from Bhutan but he had to go to Nepali's refugee camps. After twenty years, he decided to move to the United States. In the US, he kept struggling, he couldn't find a job and he didn't speak the language: "But here in the United States, my community continues to struggle. We arrived in the U.S. when the economy was at its lowest point, so we struggle to find jobs. Many of us do not speak English, and lack of education makes it even more difficult for us to learn (...)".
However, Gurung explains that he now helps other refugees to have a successful transition between the place where they come from and the United States and he's very happy about it and about his family.
Explanation:
To complete this exercise, you have to read a text about what Til Gurung said in a Refugee Transitions talk, and then summarize what Gurung's life was like before and after arriving in the United States. In his talk, he explains a little bit about his life and how Refugee Transitions is filling a need in his community.
