Just read this over to see if this sounds good. It's my intro paragraph. Give me some insight if I need to change anything. Like my thesis or something. People of the past and present judge each other by their class. This could relate to how much wealth they have as well as their social class or economic status. These judgements separate us as a society and live our lives around these judgments. Class in simple words is a group of people or things categorized by the quality and economic status. This relates to the novel "The Great Gatsby" by some of the characters in the novel such as Tom and Daisy Buchanan.

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