Which of the following options correctly restates the meaning of this excerpt from Anthony's "On Woman's Right to the Suffrage"?
I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged
crime of having voted at the last presidential election,
without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work
this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only
committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my
citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States
citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of!
any State to deny
O A. I can't stand in front of you tonight to speak because I have been
charged with a crime and am in jail. If I were present, I would
explain why what I did is in fact not a crime, because my right to
vote is guaranteed by the Constitution, and no state can take that
away.
B. As I stand in front of you tonight, I have been charged with a cripling:
illegally voting in the last presidential election. This is a crime

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir