Read the paragraph from "The Blue Whale-Largest Vertebrate in the World." Then, in your own words, write a short summary two to five sentences) of what the paragraph is about. Blue whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on Earth , but they almost disappeared before our generation got to see them. Extensive hunting for whale oil in the 1900s led to their near extinction. Between 1900 and 1965, about 360, 000 blue whales were killed. Finally , in 1966, the International Whaling Commission placed blue whales on its endangered species list. Now there are only a few thousand blue whales left to swim the oceans of the world.

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.