Read the excerpt from frederick douglass's july 4, 1852, speech on the hypocrisy of american slavery. douglass was an abolitionist and a formerly enslaved person. whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. america is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. how do the words hideous, revolting, and false most affect the tone and meaning of this passage? they suggest the speaker’s belief that the future holds hope. they present a tone of solidarity with america's actions. they show the speaker’s disgust over slavery. they show the speaker's admiration for america.

The correct answer is the following: option C. The words hideous, revolting, and false most affect the tone and meaning of this passage, so that they show the speaker's disgust over slavery.

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer, who used to be an enslaved person. On July 4th, 1852 he gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. During the speech, Douglass referred to the injustice and cruelty to which former slaves were subjected to. With the use of words such as hideous, revolting and false, the reformer described his disgust over slavery.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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