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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.
Explanation:
The given statement above "<span>people can be cruel when they are confused or hurt" is considered a theme and not a plot summary because it relates a universal idea about life. The correct answer would be option A. A theme has a more universal approach because people, regardless of what culture or belief they have, can relate to it and can be seen in day to day living.</span>
First-person point of view uses "I" and "My"
The correct answer is C. Abbreviate
Explanation:
The period, also called full stop is one of the most common punctuation marks, this is used at the end of text, paragraphs or ideas to introduce a long pause and mark complete thoughts, But besides this use, the period is also used as part of ellipsis (...), in numbers and to abbreviate words which refers to shortening words, in this case most abbreviations that include the first/last letters of a word should end with a period and in some cases abbreviations that only use initial letters also include period. For example, the word "Mister" is commonly abbreviated as "Mr.", the word "December" is abbreviated as "Dec." and the term "United States of America" can be abbreviated as "U.S.A." Therefore, it can be concluded a period is also used to abbreviate words.
