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 does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. for a long time she held her neck erect; then her head sank, slowly. her ribs swelled with a mighty heave and she went over. as it is used in this excerpt from “the man who was almost a man,” the phrase “went over” most likely means died escaped jumped vomited

In 150 words, explain what northup (in twelve years a slave) could have done to prevent being kidnapped by hamilton and brown.