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Read the Extract Given Below and Answer the Question that Follow. I Supposed that If Long Won, It Would Add Some New Support to the Nazis’ Aryan- Superiority Theory. What Did Jesse - English 2 (Literature in English)

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I was in for a surprise. When the time came for the broad-jump trials, I was startled to see a tall boy hitting the pit at almost 26 feet on his practice leaps! He turned out to be a German named Luz Long. 1 was told that Hitler hoped to win the jump with him. I guessed that if Long won, it would add some new support to the Nazis’ “master race” (Aryan superiority) theory. After all, I am a Negro. Angr about Hitler’s ways, 1 determined to go out there and really show Der Fuhrer and his master race who was superior and who wasn’t. An angry athlete is an athlete who will make mistakes, as any coach will tell you. I was no exception. On the first of my three qualifying jumps, I leaped from several inches beyond the takeoff board for a foul. On the second jump, I fouled even worse. “Did I come 3,000 miles for this?” I thought bitterly. “To foul out of the trials and make a fool of myself ?” Walking a few yards from the pit, 1 kicked disgustedly at the dirt.

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.

I supposed that if Long won, it would add some new support to the Nazis’ Aryan- superiority theory. What did Jesse Owens want to show to Hitler?

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Jesse wanted to show Hitler that he was not inferior .These lines are taken from, “My Greatest Olympic Prize” written by Jesse Owens. In, these lines Owen thinks what will happen if Germany wins. Then it would add truth to Hitler’s theory that the German race was superior and his athletes were meant to win.

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