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The answer to Part A would be Ignorant, as the author goes on to state that his youthful understanding had struggled in vain. If someone is ignorant of something, yet they do not take the time to actually go research or learn about that thing, then they would be struggling in vain because they are selfish and not taking time to research what it is that the other person is saying that they do not understand.
For the answer to Part B, I would say that (Frederick) Douglass' new awareness of how owners maintain control over slaves allows him to better understand how to improve his situation. I say this because he seems to have an awakening/epiphany in the very last line: "I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty".
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That would be A. because common nouns can't be places and the sunset is not a place.
I believe the answer is A. Favorite.
Peter should develop his thesis statement during the prewriting stage. At this stage, an author thinks about what he is going to write about further down in the text, and a thesis statement is exactly that - a short summary of the main ideas that are going to be developed in a text.
14. C. Playing sports may have negative results.
15. C. Less than half of the children.
16. A. Adults.
17. D. Parents should teach children to play sports for fun and exercise.
18. A. Ignoring the problem.
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