Directions In the form of a persuasive speech, respond to the following prompt: Defend or refute Darwin’s statement: “Of all the differences between man and the lower animal, man’s sense of moral conscience is by far the most important.” Include an analysis of moral choices or conflicts by two characters in this unit and one example of the same from history or personal experience to support your position. Support your argument with specific examples from two of the works from this unit and one example from history or your own personal life experience.

he is honest with congress and america about the difficulty of the war ahead.

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taken from the novel “the adventures of huckleberry finn” by mark twain (1884), the author narrates about social issues and norms related to morality, prejudice, and slavery. twain included the excerpt above in order to discuss a moral conflict that huck is in: following the moral values he has received from the society in which he lives. moreover, there are moral issues such as gilt and blame discussed here. in the excerpt above, which is part of chapter xvi, huck faces a dilemma: jim to escape or telling miss watson about jim’s flight. huck feels confused, since by choosing one action or another someone is going to get hurt. both jim and miss watson have him in different ways; jim has protected him and has been very kind with him and miss watson has him with his education. the following sentence is a clear example of the dilemma huck faces when he narrates what his conscience tells him: “what had poor miss watson done to you that you could see her niger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? ”.