Read the two passages from Sugar Changed the World. Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should
be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived
in France and take them with them when they left.
Though most parts of France agreed to this, law-makers
in Paris hesitated. Pierre Lemerre the Younger made the
case for the slaves. "All men are equal," he insisted in
1716-exactly sixty years before the Declaration of
Independence.
To say that "all men are equal" in 1716, when slavery
was flourishing in every corner of the world and most
eastern Europeans themselves were farmers who could
be sold along with the land they worked, was like
announcing that there was a new sun in the sky. In the
Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever
before, the idea that all humans are equal began to
spread-toppling kings, overturning governments,
Which statement best explains how the authors develop
their claim across the two passages?
Both passages use evidence to develop the claim
that the general public needed to know about the
terrors of involuntary servitude.
Both passages use evidence to develop the claim
that Eastern European farmers and enslaved people
on sugar plantations shared a common goal.
Both passages use evidence to show that knowledge
of the extreme brutality of the sugar trade changed
viewpoints about enslavement.
Both passages use evidence to support the claim that
lawmakers had more power and influence than
abolitionists had.

Match the author with the description a. ernest hemingway b. john steinbeck c. robert frost d. langston hughes (1) summers spent in pacific grove, california influenced the symbolism in his literature (2) his poetry includes simple, direct language. many are dramatic monologues written in free verse are about life on new england farms (3) the mood and tone of his literature is largely shaped by his experience as a soldier in world war 1 (4) his poetry and short stories include dialect and colloquialisms which gives his primarily african american characters distinctive voices

The attitude the speaker in this poem holds toward himself can best be described as

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)