What this interaction reveals about Brutus' character is that his <span>naiveté and idealism prevent him from seeing when he’s being manipulated. He wanted to save the Republic from Caesar, and that was his only goal in life - apart from that, he could see nothing else and think about no other cause. This is why it was so easy for Portia to trick him into telling her everything. However, it didn't do her any good - she still committed suicide in the end. </span>
Answer:
The line from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which supports Douglas' claim that the Fourth of July is not a cause worthy of celebration by all is:
O "Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them."
Explanation:
The renowned American abolition advocate and civil rights fighter, Frederick Douglas delivered the above-named keynote address to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society on Independence Day July 5, 1852. Essentially, Douglas invited Americans to improve themselves. In addition, he stressed the need for citizens to exercise their voting franchise, because as someone said elsewhere, "voting is a great equalizer" for a just and egalitarian society.
Gladwell has a few different arguments to make regarding Asian excellence at mathematics. First, the agricultural tradition of many Asian countries, which is rice farming, promotes this skill, and second, Asian languages, Chinese in particular, are better adapted to handling computation of numbers, both leading to an educational climate in which the attributes of a rice-farming tradition and an ease with numbers promote educational and subsequent success in math.