Question

Can anyone help me understand how to do this assignment?

I have to write 3 paragraphs on either Describe some of the challenges facing the American people during the late 20th and early 21st centuries

Or

Explain the effects of cultural diversity among the American people during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
I'm terrible at poetry and understanding it so any help would be appreciated. Ill post the poem below

Answer 1

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors,
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper–
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives–
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did
for twenty years, so I could write this poem for all of us today.

All of us as vital as the one light we move through,
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light
breathing color into stained glass windows,
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth
onto the steps of our museums and park benches
as mothers watch children slide into the day.

One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.
The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains
mingled by one wind–our breath. Breathe. Hear it
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,
buses launching down avenues, the symphony
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.

Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open
for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,
buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días
in the language my mother taught me–in every language
spoken into one wind carrying our lives
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.

One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report
for the boss on time, stitching another wound
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.

One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father
who couldn't give what you wanted.

We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always–home,
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop
and every window, of one country–all of us–
facing the stars
hope–a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it–together.

Answer 2

Lotss of words eyy

Answer 3

Yeah i know its long lol

Answer 4

:D

Answer 5

Oml this is college 0.0

Answer 6

no its high school i clicked the wrong thing

Answer 7

O lord well im still in 7th Grade but i'll try ^_^

Answer 8

Why do you keep changing your profile picture 0.0

Answer 9

my computer is glitchy and it keeps clicking the wrong thing.

Answer 10

Oh

Answer 11

I don't know if this is what your looking for ?




That depends on which cultural diversity you are addressing.
The main one it would seem during the 20th century was prejudice between whites and blacks. Back then there was something called segregation, this word is used to describe the separation between black people and white people. Black people were not permitted to even use the same bathroom as a white person, and if there were not enough seats on a bus and a white person walked on, the black person would have to give up their seat for the white person. The government wanted to end segregation, so they made white children go far away out of town to a black school to be with blacks, and black children go far way from their town to a white school, this was a socialist experiment and it honestly did no good. Black people were treated poorly until people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. started standing up and fighting against this nasty prejudice. What those honorable men and woman fought for that cost them much, has no been obviously abundant in our lives. Although racism has not ended, we can see that segregation has.

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Answer 12

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