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Answer:
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".
Explanation:
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1. I can see the water's motion by watching how a swell the river became because of the water.
2. When the tide comes in on the beach, it could submerge the whole island by how large the high tide is.
3. There was a porthole in our room on the boat, so we covered it with a plank of wood.
4. One reason to be on the deck of a boat is that it forms the main outside of the boat.
<span>The following of these sentences continue, in order for the readers to understand what the word truly means.</span>
Bias means to be based on a set of thinking. She had a biased opinion on the sexes because she was a girl.