([ANNIE] wipes the hand clean and leads HELEN to her bureau, where she looks for something to engage her. She finds a sewing card, with needle and thread, and going to her knees, shows HELEN’S hand how to connect one row of holes.) How do these stage directions add meaning to the play?

The stage directions suggest the historical time period.
The stage directions describe Annie’s manner of speaking.
The stage directions show how Annie reacts to Helen.
The stage directions explain Helen’s facial expressions.

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. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination