Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this essay. which quotation most accurately explains anna quindlen’s purpose for writing “a quilt of a country”? “other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities.“ “and there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the united states that eventually leads most to admit that,…the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents.” “one of the things that it stands for is this vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live, if not side by side, then on either side of the country’s chester avenues.” “once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism.”

Read this excerpt from rudolfo anaya’s essay “take the tortillas out of your poetry.”tortillas and poetry. they go hand in hand. books nourish the spirit, bread nourishes our bodies. our distinct cultures nourish each one of us, and as we know more and more about the art and literature of the different cultures, we become freer and freer. . i don’t know anyone who doesn’t like to sample different ethnic foods, the breads of many many groups; just as many of us enjoy sampling books from different areas of the world. i travel to foreign countries, and i know more about myself as i learn more about my fellow human beings. censorship imposes itself in my path of knowledge, and that activity can be justified by no one.which of these changes would make this excerpt more argumentative? using words that affect the audience’s sense of trustusing less repetition of certain words and phrasesincluding words that address logic and reasonincluding words that are charged with emotion