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In this excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, which sentence best conveys the idea that it is not in the nature of men and women to be enslaved or to enslave others?

It is easy to see, that, in entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, some little experience is needed. Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders. Nothing but rigid training, long persisted in, can perfect the character of the one or the other. One cannot easily forget to love freedom; and it is as hard to cease to respect that natural love in our fellow creatures. On entering upon the career of a slaveholding mistress, Mrs. Auld was singularly deficient lacking; nature, which fits nobody for such an office, had done less for her than any lady I had known. It was no easy matter to induce her to think and to feel that the curly-headed boy, who stood by her side, and even leaned on her lap; who was loved by little Tommy the Auld's son, and who loved little Tommy in turn; sustained to her only the relation of a chattel piece of personal property, such as furniture or farm animals. I was more than that, and she felt me to be more than that. I could talk and sing; I could laugh and weep; I could reason and remember; I could love and hate. I was human, and she, dear lady, knew and felt me to be so. How could she, then, treat me as a brute, without a mighty struggle with all the noble powers of her own soul.

"Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders"

Explanation:

This Douglass's work is a very special one in being probably the first to consider, both slaves and slaveholders, the victims of a slaveholding system.

He constantly remainds us on what is natural, and that being forced by the system to work against one's nature renders them victims of such a brutal system

He also emphasizes the children's view on this. Children, the purest beings among humans, don't understand the reason for slavery, the reason for one human being to take another's freedom away. The children's point of view is natural, but the system will change this and teach them to become slaves.

Throughout this excerpt, he gives many evidences for his idea of what's natural:

- "...and it is as hard to cease to respect that natural love in our fellow creatures".

- "...nature, which fits nobody for such an office..."

- "...without a mighty struggle with all the noble powers of her own soul"

- "Nothing but rigid training, long persisted in, can perfect the character of the one or the other".

But, probably the most obvious and the best fitting example is "Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders".

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

in at least 150 words, discuss the tone of the narrator in "i stand here ironing," and explain how it impacts the telling of the story