Answer + ! what is the main idea of this phrase? in a recent speech in canada, gladstone murray said: the central fact is that man is fundamentally a moral being, that the light we have is imperfect does not matter so long as we are always trying to improve it we are equal in sharing the moral freedom that distinguishes us as men. man’s status makes each individual an end in himself. no man is by nature simply the servant of the state or of another man the ideal and fact of freedom -- and not technology -- are the true distinguishing marks of our civilization.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.