Make an argument for or against this statement: "That line between good and evil is permeable," Zimbardo said. "Any of us can move across it... I argue that we all have the capacity for love and evil — to be Mother Theresa, to be Hitler or Saddam Hussein. It's the situation that brings that out." Consider the characters from "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Spunk." Based on Zimbardo's claim in "What makes good people do bad things?", how did the characters' different situations influence their behavior? Do you think the characters in these stories have the capacity for both good and evil

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.what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader