Read the excerpt from “Talking to the Coach.” As a coach, what do you try to do to help the kids?

Encourage them; make it not seem like it’s the end of the world. I tell them everybody strikes out. I tell them that they pay major league baseball players millions of dollars to strike out. It’s just part of the game. You have to encourage them to swing, too. It’s a lot easier just to watch the ball go by.

Which statement would Coach Thompson most likely agree with?

It’s better to try and fail than not to have tried at all.
Winning is the most important thing.
Nice guys finish last.
There is no “I” in team.

For frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852)1) does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. 2) how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.

Which is easier to identify direct or indirect characterization? why