Read the passage from "The Dream." “Honey,” said her father, “I read the letters, and I’m so happy for you, but when a child goes to the bush, it should look for snails and not for the tortoise.”

Whenever something was difficult for him to say, Amina’s father spoke in a proverb from Nigeria, his home country. Amina was born in America and usually had trouble deciphering what he meant.

The descriptive details help the reader understand Amina and her father's

shared fondness for their Nigerian heritage.
affection for their current American lifestyle.
similar outlook on how to pursue their dreams.
different approaches to overcoming challenges.

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.

Read the quote from zimmermann in the code book. a future government could inherit a technology infrastructure that's optimized for surveillance, where they can watch the movements of their political opposition, every financial transaction, every communication, every bit of e-mail, every phone call. everything could be filtered and scanned and automatically recognized by voice recognition technology and transcribed. it's time for cryptography to step out of the shadows of spies and the military, and step into the sunshine and be embraced by the rest of us. which question does this paragraph answer? why does zimmermann think encryption is important? what kind of encryption did zimmermann invent? how does zimmermann’s encryption work? who made encryption based on zimmermann’s work?

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