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After listening to the Song of the Week and reading its lyri…

After listening to the Song of the Week and reading its lyrics, write a one paragraph (5 sentence minimum) response. In your response, address your “gut reactions” (your first initial responses to the song) as well as your analysis of the deeper meaning of the song. For full credit, your response must include a minimum of 1 lyric from the song.   Note: analysis of the song pulled from the internet or other sources will receive zero credit and will be reported as plagiarism. I want to hear YOUR thoughts on the song. It’s okay to not get it “right,” as long as you show me you are trying to understand the deeper meaning and significance of the song. You should not consult ANY other outside sources besides the links provided within the quiz. Feel free to listen to the Song of the Week multiple times. There is no time limit on this quiz. The song of the week, a link to its lyrics, and a link to an article about its history will be revealed once you click to start the quiz. You will need to listen to the song of the week and write your response on the Honorlock recording to receive credit. Writing the response without listening to the song on the Honorlock recording will earn a grade of zero (0). Please be sure to start this assignment with enough time to listen to the song at least once and compose your written response.   Song of the Week #6 is: “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson Here is a link to the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONgOH_tq7-Q  Here is a link to an article about the song’s history: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/lift-every-voice-and-sing#:~:text=Often%20referred%20to%20as%20%22The,the%20music%20for%20the%20lyrics.        You should not consult any other sources, websites, notes, etc. when writing your response. Your response must be in your own words.

Passage C The centerpiece of the student debt-relief plan th…

Passage C The centerpiece of the student debt-relief plan that President Biden announced last month is his decision to cancel up to $20,000 per borrower in federal loans. But the more far-reaching — and, over time, more expensive — element of the president’s strategy is his blueprint for a revamped income-linked repayment plan, which would sharply reduce what many borrowers pay every month. It could, however, have unintended consequences. Unscrupulous schools, including for-profit institutions, have long used high-pressure sales tactics, or outright fraud and deception, to saddle students with more debt than they could ever reasonably hope to repay. By offering more-generous educational subsidies, the government may be creating a perverse incentive for both schools and borrowers, who could begin to pay even less attention to the actual price tag of their education — and taxpayers could be left footing more of the bill. “If people are taking out the same or more amount of debt and repaying less of it, then it’s just taxpayers bearing the brunt of it,” said Daniel Zibel, the chief counsel at the National Student Legal Defense Network, an advocacy group. Experts are particularly concerned about how the new subsidies could be manipulated by for-profit colleges, many of which have a record of persuading people to take on high debt for degrees that often fail to deliver the kind of earnings boost the schools advertise. The primary purpose of the passage is to