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To the slaves, America's claims of freedom and liberty were a “sham and hypocrisy,” Douglass stated. After reading the speech aloud, event participants said that Douglass' speech remained equally important today, pointing to our society's habit of celebrating its past without attending to the hypocrisy in the present.
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The poem speaks of a giant statue of a great and well-renowned king, but that statue lies destroyed in the sand. It speaks of the king being so famous that even "the mighty" cannot compare with it. And yet, in an ironic twist, this statue is described as a wreck. This implies that death overpowers even great fame and wealth, and the best choice is A.
Answer: "everying good thing must come to a end."
Explanation: The word converge means comming to a point. in this case there is a lack of detail in your question but from what i can see it seems to be asking the meaning. This would be the correct awnser seeming that your character has risein and it now seems that he has come to his end point. But in this case it ended well as he overcame his antaginost.
Borges's story The Garden of Forking Paths can be considered to be a three dimensional chess game for a variety of reasons. First, like a game of chess, a nearly infinite number of possible outcomes are proposed through the story (just as how a chess game can allow for a variety of different outcomes). Also, chess is a game of choice, just as the Garden of Forking Paths - both the story itself and the novel of the same titles mentioned in the story - allows for the reader to, in essence, choose their own design and strategy. Furthermore, the lead character\protagonist in the story is manipulating events throughout the story to, in essence, score a "checkmate."