My name is Jayden Baxter. 21 am a member of the chess club at Carter High School. Because of budget cuts, our school will be unable to purchase new uniforms for our team. 4As a result, the team is seeking sponsors to fund our new uniforms. 57 am writing to request your sponsorship. As a sponsor, your company name would be featured on our uniforms. ?The uniforms are worn to meets all over the county. Your donation will help both the chess team and your own company. Which of the following is the thesis statement in the paragraph? 3 1 none of these

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