5. “As he lay in bed, he realized how time seemed to stop when he was high, how the drug-smoking it, feeling its effects, recovering from it-made him forget everything else. And he understood, faintly, how addictive that
feeling could be, and how easy it would be to make some money off selling that feeling to people who needed it."
What insight is Wes sharing about drug use?

This poem is in the public domain. Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman is the author of Leaves of Grass and, along with Emily Dickinson, is considered one of the architects of a uniquely American poetic voice. About This Poem. This version of “I Hear America Singing” appeared in the 1867 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.