Identify the character: This husband does not understand tha…

Identify the character: This husband does not understand that his wife needs to have more emotional and spiritual support than he can give her with his focus on the farm and cattle. He is a good man who is just clueless in the relationship. He dismisses the one gift she has by telling her to grow apples instead of flowers, something that would be of value.

Identify the author: This writer spent his childhood moving…

Identify the author: This writer spent his childhood moving often as his mother got work as a maid or cook. He had an uneven education but could read the write. His Mississippi birthplace and the southern states where they moved were segregated so that he could not use public libraries, but he knew he wanted to learn. He was able to get books from a public library in Memphis when he was a young man by using a white man’s library card. His story of the fear and violence of his youth is told in his autobiographical work Black Boy.

Identify the title: At stake is the survival of our civiliza…

Identify the title: At stake is the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth. . . .This too is a moral moment, a crossroads. This is not ultimately about any scientific discussion or political dialogue. It is about who we are as human beings. It is about our capacity to transcend our own limitations, to rise to this new occasion. To see with our hearts, as well as our heads, the response that is now called for. This is a moral, ethical and spiritual challenge. We should not fear this challenge. We should welcome it. We must not wait.