We often create something new out of something that wasn’t working. The complaints against England were the beginning of the Constitution of the United States, establishing the three branches of government and the system of checks and balances we use today in America. Choose one complaint in the Declaration of Independence. Write an essay of at least 200 words that states your opinion, supported by evidence, whether or not we have resolved that complaint and if so, how?

Read rita dove’s poem "sonnet in primary colors,” then study frida kahlo’s painting self-portrait with monkey and parrot. this is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present— wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— this priestess in the romance of mirrors. each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diego’s love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. which statements best describe differences in the style of the two works? the painting pays attention to details of kahlo’s physical appearance, while the poem does not. the poem portrays the painter as serious, while the painting does not. the poem reveals details that explain kahlo’s facial expressions, while the painting does not. the painting uses imagery that tells of kahlo’s connection to nature, while the poem does not.