Which sentence best gets across the author’s message in the story? a. when the first cart crossed the line, adiel and kelso couldn’t wondering how it would have felt if they had won. within seconds, other carts raced by. b. adiel realized that this sense of happiness was also surging throughout his body, even though he had not raced. c. but we do believe that we should promise to do our best and do something good for somebody every day. d. adiel's mother soon appeared. "and i'm more proud of you now than i ever could have been if you had come in first," she said.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination