At the end of the second paragraph (“And yet . . . India”), the author includes a series of clauses that serve to

you have to tell us what you're talking about or it's impossible to answer.

you have approval for this story

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and also the mystery girl it might be someone that she might know in her school

the text includes parts of primary-source interviews with enslaved people to illustrate the difficulty of life on a sugar plantation in louisiana.

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our founding fathers introduced the revolutionary idea that each person's desire to pursue their idea of happiness was not self-indulgence, but a necessary driver of a prosperous society. they created a government to defend that right for everyone.