( Read: )I start drumming since I was five years old. As a young boy back home in Mali, where I’m from, you know, when you are a boy, your toy is a drum. So every time you cry, they just hand you the drum, and you just keep banging on it, and you don’t even know what you’re doing until you stop crying. So that’s how I start, so I had my first drum when I was two years old, and I start drumming around the age of five. And as I said, I come from, you know, a big family of the griot, and in the griot family, every day, people play, sing, and dance every day. So I grew up seeing people doing that every day…after each meal is the party time. So you see people playing, drumming, singing, and you just watch and you try to be part of it, and you know—that’s how you learn.


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The procedure of comparing cultural similarities as well as differences among societies is called the _____. a. similar method
b. comparative method
c. characteristics method

There are many freshwater and saltwater areas in the everglades. What is the simple subject?

In London, Shakespeare was making his mark as an_____ and a writer.

Which sentence has correct capitalization?One Commander of the Continental Army was President George Washington.
One commander of the Continental Army was president George Washington.
One commander of the Continental Army was President george washington.
One commander of the Continental Army was President George Washington.

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Passage (CAG_ELA 9_Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address) Read Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Address below and answer the following questions analyzing this piece of informational text. Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address By: Ronald Reagan Tuesday, January 20, 1981 1To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion; and yet, in the history of our Nation, it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle. 2 Mr. President, I want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this tradition. By your gracious cooperation in the transition process, you have shown a watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other, and I thank you and your people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of our Republic. 3 The business of our nation goes forward. These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people. 4 Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity. 5 But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. 6 You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation? 7 We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding - we are going to begin to act, beginning today. Reagan's praise for the outgoing president in paragraph 2 establishes what attitude in the reader's mind? (RI3) Group of answer choices A) That Reagan doesn’t think the outgoing President did a very good job

B) That the outgoing President was a better President than Reagan will be

C) That Reagan acknowledges and appreciated the former President’s contributions to America

D) That Reagan likes the outgoing President