Research your topic using the Internet or other reference material. You may want to start with local or national newspapers, television news sources, or online encyclopedias. Please contact your instructor if you are unable to find appropriate sources. You may also want to review this learning object for tips on finding and using information. Write a conversation between two people with different perspectives on your topic. Your conversation can be in the form of instant messages, text messages, or social media status updates. You may use this template to complete your assessment. Your conversation should include the following:

A total of at least five entries for each side (10 entries total—two to three sentences each)
Accurate facts used to support both perspectives
At least two properly cited sources used for research
For information on how to properly cite sources review the MLA Citation Style presentation.

Question 1 (1 point) five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. but one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. and so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in the first paragraph of this passage, which literary technique does mlk use? question 1 options: a. this is an example of personification because it compares segregation to being in chains. b. this is an example of hyperbole because it gives it gives human characteristics to segregation. c. this is an example of allusion because it references the language used in the emancipation proclamation, which freed slaves in 1863, 100 years before this speech was presented. d. this is an example of onomatopoeia because he uses the words seared and withering to describe the injustices experienced by african americans.

Which statement describes the middle passage

Why are both hamilton and jefferson writing to george washington? based on both of these letters, what seems to have been happening in george washington's administration? how can you tell?