PLEASE HELP ASAP! I AM TIME LIMITED! Read the excerpts from “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry. Identify each excerpt as supporting one of these themes: “people can change for the better” or “people are not able to change themselves.”

“Brace up, and make a man of
yourself. You're not a bad
fellow at heart. Stop cracking
safes, and live straight.”

“That's Dandy Jim Valentine's
autograph. He's resumed business.”

Jimmy Valentine looked into
her eyes, forgot what he was,
and became another man.

“It's the only life, Billy—the
straight one. I wouldn't touch
a dollar of another man's money
now for a million.”

"Going to marry the banker's
daughter are you, Jimmy?"
said Ben to himself, softly.
"Well, I don't know!"

"Guess you're mistaken,
Mr. Spencer," he said. "Don't
believe I recognize you. Your
buggy's waiting for you, ain't it?"

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Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man