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From The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Which words from the first line of The Gettysburg Address best reflect Lincoln's formal diction?To Pass/Cross/Meet (indirect and broad events ) synonym to SucederRead this excerpt from "Letter to His Son" by Robert E. Lee: "As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and institutions, and would defend any state if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution."Lee is unwilling to give up in his defense of the Union?Why are Piney and the Duchess described as sleeping beneath the white snow, which covers "all human stain" in a "spotless mantle [cloak]"?What is the best explanation for why John Oakhurst writes his suicide note on the deuce (two) of clubs?Considering the news Mrs. Mallard has just received, what is ironic about the details she notices through her window?Cuando regrese, si todavía se quieren, podrán casarse . Cuentan con mi permiso.Read the passage.From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass "When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling—'that woman is a Christian.'"Which adjectives best characterize the Aulds' home during Douglass's early childhood as described in the passage?Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."What other founding document is President Lincoln referring to in this passage?Which line from "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" best gives the reader a sense of the regional flavor of the Old West?Which adjective best describes Lincoln's diction in The Gettysburg Address?Read the following sentence near the end of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat": "The moon through the rifted clouds looked down upon what had been the camp." What figure of speech is used in this sentence?¿Me salvaría la vida o me entregaría a la justicia?From "Letter to His Son"Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. I shall mourn for my country and for the welfare and progress of mankind. If the Union is dissolved, and the government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people; and, save in defense, will draw my sword on none.The diction in this passage indicates that Lee is _____.What vision of the nation does Lincoln describe at the end of his speech: "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. . . .that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.".Read the excerpt from "Letter to His Son" by Robert E. Lee: "Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. I shall mourn for my country and for the welfare and progress of mankind. If the Union is dissolved, and the government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people; and, save in defense, will draw my sword on none."The diction in this passage indicates that Lee is _____.La quería. Hubiera deseado algún día casarme con ella.Ellos luchan para conseguir lo que tú ya tienes.Though Mrs. Auld had smiled, fed, and clothed Frederick Douglass, what would always separate them—the "overshadowing evil" that Douglass writes about?Excerpt from Bartolomé de Las Casas's Destruction of the Indies, 1552 :Among the gentle sheep, gifted by their Maker with the above qualities, the Spaniards entered as soon as they knew them, like wolves, tigers, and lions which had been starving for many days, and since forty years they have done nothing else; nor do they otherwise at the present day, than outrage, slay, afflict, torment, and destroy them with strange and new, and divers kinds of cruelty, never before seen, nor heard of, nor read of, of which some few will be told below: to such extremes has this gone that, whereas there were more than three million souls, whom we saw in Hispaniola, there are to-day, not two hundred of the native population left.The island of Cuba is almost as long as the distance from Valladolid to Rome; it is now almost entirely deserted. The islands of San Juan [Porto Rico], and Jamaica, very large and happy and pleasing islands, are both desolate. The Lucaya Isles lie near Hispaniola and Cuba to the north and number more than sixty, including those that are called the Giants, and other large and small Islands; the poorest of these, which is more fertile, and pleasing than the King's garden in Se
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