n a speech delivered in 1883, social reformer and writer Frederick Douglass asserted that “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at last finding the other end of it fastened about his own neck.” When attempting to control someone or something, do people compromise their own freedom in the process? Carefully consider the implications of Douglass’s assertion. Compose a thesis statement that you might use for an essay arguing your position on the validity of Douglass’s assertion, then provide bullet lines of reasoning with brief references to evidence from your reading, experience, or observation.

Why was jefferson chosen as the primary writer of the declaration of independence?

Which two lines in this sonnet use symbolism to describe old age? sonnet 2 by william shakespeare when forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, where all the treasure of thy lusty days; to say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. how much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, if thou couldst answer 'this fair child of mine shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' proving his beauty by succession thine! this were to be new made when thou art old, and see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.

Which of these sentences is an example of paradox