Answer:
Students in many countries enjoy free college educations.
Explanation:
Author compares the United States college system to the European one, enhancing his point that the united states should provide free college.
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A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.