How would the meaning of this short poem change if you dropped one of the languages?
What will be an ideal response?
The poem is greater than the sum of its two side-by-side parts. Each of the columns, one in Spanish and one in English, makes a simple statement that might be fairly described as a greeting-card sentiment or bumper sticker slogan. Bringing these two texts together, however, suggests the possibility of levels of meaning having to do with language, history, politics, and international relations. Is the “us” of the poem two lovers, two friends, two nations? Is Alarcón making a political statement about the relationship between the United States and Mexico, or should the poem be read, rather, as an intimate communication by the speaker to his or her beloved?
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This sentence form a paragraph. Proofread them for inconsistent tense and faulty parallelism. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select “correct” if the sentence is free of errors. A) correct B) inconsistent tense C) faulty parallelism
At what University did Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg meet?
a. Harvard b. Stanford c. Columbia d. Yale
Artificial
a. genuine b. weak c. fake d. muscular e. ancient
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.