Advanced Placement (AP)
Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers. A Whippoorwill in the WoodsNight after night, it was very nearly enough,they said, to drive you crazy: a whippoorwillin the woods repeating itself like the stuck grooveof an LP with a defect, and no way possible(5) of turning the thing off.And night after night, they said, in the insomniacsmall hours the whipsawing voice of obsessionwould have come in closer, the way a sickthing does when it's done foror maybe the reason(10) was nothing more melodramaticthan a night-flying congregation of moths, lured inin their turn by house-glow, the strange heatof itimagine the nebular dangerousness, if onewere a moth, the dark pockmarked with beaks, the great(15) dim shapes, the bright extinctionif moths are indeed, after all, what a whippoorwillfavors. Who knows? Anyhow, from one point of viewinsects are to be seen as an ailment, moths above all:the filmed-over, innumerable nodes of spun-out tissue(20) untidying the trees, the larvalspew of such hairy hordes, one wonders what usethey can be other than as a guarantee no birdgoes hungry. We're like that. The webbiness,the gregariousness of the many are what we can't abide.(25) We single out for noticeabove all what's disjunct, the way birds are,with their unhooked-up, cheekily anarchicdartings and flashings,their uncalled-for colorthe indelible look of the rose-breasted grosbeak(30) an aunt of mine, a noticerof such things before the noticing had or neededa name, drew my five-year-old attention up to, inthe green deeps of a maple. She never married,believed her cat had learned to leave birds alone,(35) and for years, node after node,by lingering degrees she made way within forwhat wasn't so much a thing as it was a system,a webwork of error that throve until it killed her.What is health? We must all die sometime.(40) Whatever it is out therein the woods, that begins to seem likea species of madness, we survive as we can:the hooked-up, the humdrum, the brief, tragicwonder of being at all. The whippoorwill out in(45) the woods, for me, brought backas by a relay, from a place at such a distanceno recollection now in place could reach so far,the memory of a memory she told me of once:of how her father, my grandfather, by whatever(50) now unfathomable happenstance,carried her (she might have been five) into the breathing night."Listen!" she said he'd said. Did you hear it?That was a whippoorwill. And she (and I) never forgot. From Westward by Amy Clampitt. Copyright 1990 by Any Clampitt. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.The whippoorwill is most probably called a "voice of obsession" (line 7) because ithas a shrill cryhas a shrill cryrepeats itselfrepeats itselfis invisibleis invisibleconstantly tries to come nearerconstantly tries to come neareris probably sick
PLEASE HELP THIS IS EXTREMELY URGENTim working on an ap world practice test and need help with a SAQ!!!"The luxury of having a human rights standard is to be expected in the advanced industrial democracies of the world because these countries are currently experiencing economic stability, flourishing agriculture, and reasonably stable populations. But in the developing world, the situation is more often reversed. Poverty in India, hunger in the Sahel [sub-Saharan West Africa], population pressures in China, or war and terrorism in Somalia all speak of continuing difficulties in trying to secure basic human rights for all people around the world. The so-called North-South dichotomy is a real onepart economic, part ideological, part ecological. In 1992, the [United Nations] Human Development report noted that developing countries enter the global market as unequal partners and leave with unequal rewards. Furthermore, by 1990, the richest 20% of countries had national incomes 60 times greater than those of the poorest 20% of countries. And, on the level of personal income the richest 20% of the worlds people get at least 150 times more than the poorest 20%. It is important to acknowledge these issues while at the same time attempting to move the international system toward a greater global human rights standard. "Louis Menand III, United States political scientist, "Human Rights as Global Imperative," article in Conceptualizing Global History, published in 1993a) Describe the authors main argument about efforts to establish a global "human rights standard. "b) Identify ONE historical development in the twentieth century that provides a context for the emergence of the universal human rights movement. c) Explain ONE development in the late twentieth or early twenty-first centuries that would undermine the authors argument that developing countries are unable "to secure basic human rights" due to ongoing economic and political problems. PLEASE HELP THANK YOU!