Nellie Bly wants to access a “mad-house” from which other people would want to escape. The speaker of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” shows support for people who feel trapped or imprisoned. Citing evidence from both texts, compare and contrast the purposes of both authors. Be sure to include the rhetorical appeals and figurative language that establish their purposes.

Delegates: representatives who cast votes at a political party's national convention. binding: if a primary or caucus is “binding” that means the delegates won in that contest are legally bound to vote for a particular candidate at the parties national convention.a primary is a preliminary election used to determine a party's nominee for a specific office. the winner of the party's caucus, or primary, wins the party nomination for that state. then the delegates meet at their party's national party convention, which is a formal gathering of all party delegates from all states.