Read the excerpt from dispatches.
i remembered the way a phantom pilot had talked about how beautiful the surface-to-air missiles looked as they
drifted up toward his plane to kill him, and remembered myself how lovely .50-caliber tracers could be, coming at you
as you flew at night in a helicopter, how slow and graceful, arching up easily, a dream, so remote from anything that
could harm you.
based on the sensory details, what can be inferred about the narrator's feelings toward the airstrikes he witnessed?
he was fascinated by the way they looked
he became drowsy from their slowness.
he despised them because they were destructive
he feared them for their unpredictability,

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader