To [the american slave], your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass–fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and , with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. –frederick douglass why does douglass use parallelism?

Subject: save the whales! dear professor crest, i know you are really busy and everything, but i was hoping that you could spend more time thinking about how to save the whales. it’s up to us to speak up on their behalf. it’s really wrong that some amusement parks use these poor, defenseless animals for recreational purposes. this must be stopped, and you’re the person to do it! ttyl, jules which revisions would make this e-mail more formal? check all that apply. a. removing the contractions b. removing the exclamation points c. removing the salutation d. removing the slang and casual speech e. removing the information about amusement parks