Question 8 of 20 2 Points
Read this passage from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan in 1987:
And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be
coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear
much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and
openness. Some political prisoners have been released.
Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being
jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted
to operate with greater freedom from state control.
Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the
Soviet state? Or are they token gestures, intended to raise
false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system
without changing it? We welcome change and openness;
for we believe that freedom and security go together, that
the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the
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Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .