1) Despite the heavy rain,the television reporter, accompanied by her loyal film crew,
was willing to wait outside the hotel until the delegates finished their meeting._2)Vanessa had a tendency
to change her mind often, so often in fact that her friends gave up expecting her to show up at their parties._3)In 1988 a Soviet icebreaking ship helped free three gray whales that had become trapped in the Arctic ice after they
had swum into the coastal waters of Alaska to feed._4) As a distinct body of writing, Mexican American literature is
relatively young, having taken shape only after the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848.