Read the excerpt from black boy. my mother fell ill and the problem of food became an acute, daily agony. hunger was with us always. sometimes the neighbors would feed us or a dollar bill would come in the mail from my grandmother. it was winter and i would buy a dime’s worth of coal each morning from the corner coalyard and lug it home in paper bags. for a time i remained out of school to wait upon my mother, then granny came to visit us and i returned to school. through his personal experience, which social issue is wright emphasizing? the effects of long distances on families the benefits of certain types of energy the benefits of education for children the effects of poverty on families

Each of the letters on the map above marks a body of water in southeast asia. which two letters represent gulfs

Ascientist successfully predicts the outcome of an experiment. you watch carefully and know he didn't cheat. the scientist's success shows that: a) the scientist knows absolute truth about this experiment; success is not possible unless you know the truthb) the scientist was just lucky; no one ever knows what's going on, so successful predictions require luckc) the scientist may know the truth, or at least know something that is close to the truth, or the scientist may have gotten lucky this time; you can't be absolutely sured) the scientist really was cheating, even though you didn't see the cheating; no one can get things right, except by cheatinge) the scientist spent the night at a particular hotel chain and go a free breakfast, giving the scientist the ability to do amazing things

The quiver tree grows in southern africa. which of the following plant adaptations is likely to prevent these trees from dying out due to rising desert temperatures? releasing a black powder onto their trunk to absorb more heat from sunlight shifting their growing range towards the equator ability to store water in leafy structures to prevent excess evaporation limiting seed dispersal to nearby locations