Read this excerpt from i never had it made. he knew i would have terrible problems and wanted me to know the extent of them before i agreed to the plan. i was twenty-six years old, and all my life – back to the age of eight–i had believed in payback, retaliation. the most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. i looked at mr. rickey guardedly, and in that second i was looking at him not as a partner in a great experiment, but as the enemy –a white man. i had a question, and it was the age-old one about whether or not you sell your birthright. "mr. rickey," i asked, "are you looking for a negro who is afraid to fight back? " i never will forget the way he exploded. "robinson," he said, "i'm looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back." which statement best summarizes this excerpt? a.) before accepting rickey’s offer, robinson confirms that rickey respects him as a strong black man. b.)before becoming partners with rickey, robinson discusses what he will be paid for his efforts. c.) when robinson studies rickey’s plan, he decides that rickey is an enemy who cannot be trusted. d.)when robinson argues with rickey, rickey insists that there is no reason to disagree with his plan.

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Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

Brainliest asap!me : ) has anyone read the poem, no, love is dead? ? i have a question about it .. : )