Write a speech of 250 words or more to be given to your grade at the end of the year. Use the First Lady’s speech as a template to help you focus on a major part of your life history: your education, your family life, achievements, or a particular struggle you’ve faced. Use details from that experience to write a speech that attempts to inspire graduates who are about to embark on new journeys and challenges.

What is the effect of the author's choice of the word loathsome rather than hateful in this sentence from the count of monte cristo? two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration. it reveals that the unpleasant aspects of the stairway are manmade. it stresses the disgusting, offensive nature of the stairway. it suggests that the soldiers are used to the place and do not hate it. it implies that the effects of the stairway are felt only by the inspector.