Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. My new mistress proved to be all she appeared when I first met her at the door,--a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living. She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery. I was utterly astonished at her goodness. What effect does Douglass’s use of the adjectives "blighting and dehumanizing” have on the reader? They create an image of the quality of the mistress’s weaving.
They emphasize the damage slavery causes to a slaveholder’s character.
They describe the harsh treatment that Douglass received from his mistress.
They illustrate the mistress’s kindness toward Douglass.

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Explanation:

They're describing the harsh treatment that Douglass received from the mistress. Basically dehumanizing is treating another human inhumanly. Treating someone in an inhumane way also means to be cruel. also, you can use context clues from the paragraph "when I first met her at the door,--a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings." This is past tense.

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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)