The author uses water as a symbol for what?
I’m the book slim by Carol Cullar

Explanation is in the file

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English 9 Practice Final B

DIRECTIONS:  Read and T4 the two selections and the viewing and representing piece. Then,

   answer the questions that follow.

“Slim”   by Carol Cullar

Shamrock, Texas, in August of 1937

     The rolling prairie stretched from the Rockies to the Ozarks across a thousand miles of gently rolling hills cut by dry river beds and small farms plowed higgledy-piggledy and sown with acres of wheat—millions of acres of wheat planted to answer the government’s cry during World War I. Slow to convert, some of the farmers were switching to cotton and corn, but too few had gone to modern agricultural methods. Spirits reeled from the War, the Influenza of 1918–19, the Crash. When the market collapsed, they lost money, then equipment, their farms,

and heart. As if unsatisfied with the havoc wreaked, Nature unleashed The Drought and aimed it like some great magnifying lens focused incessantly on the western farmland of Oklahoma. Fickle rains fell, only to be sucked away by the burning

air. Elsewhere, entire sections flash-flooded away for want of contour plowing. The atmosphere became a destructive engine powering itself on heated updrafts, pulling erosive ground-winds into its maw, along with the topsoil, then the subsoil, and the hopes of all those tied to the land. Thousands quit when the dust storms began to rage; some went insane as the dust-laden, ionized wind scoured every crevice and

left nowhere to hide, nowhere to run except away—to California, to South Texas,  battered tin dipper in her hand and with a deft flick of the wrist splashed what was left of her drink over the top portion of the flour sack stitched there. The cascading droplets wet the thin fabric, and a breeze blew the cooler air over her. She closed her eyes and

breathed.

“Hey!” The startled voice was deep and unfamiliar and cme from the glaring haze on the other side of the screen.

         “Oh! I’m so sorry! Let me get a towel!” Bessie pushed the screen past its buffer catch and opened it wide. A hobo stood on the stoop, his cap in hand; he mopped his forehead with a red bandanna.

        “You didn’t get me very wet!” After his first quick glance upward, he fixed his gaze respectfully on the yellow tom that came to swish about her ankles.

Bessie searched the high-buttoned front of his fade

Explanation:

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

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