Compare the tone and messages about slavery in "Free Labor" and "Go Down, Moses" with Harriet Jacobs's narrative.

Give a description of different conflicts - internal and external - that develop in this excerpt's events. What is revealed by these conflicts about slavery and the sacrifices forced by it?

If both "Stanzas on Freedom" and "Free Labor" had been read widely before the Civil War, which one do you think would be more likely to stir people to take a stand against slavery? Why?

Contrast the writer's portrayal of herself with her portrayal of the Flints. What does she reveal about the Flints' character and values?

For what values of p does

$$\int _ { 1 } ^ { \infty } x ^ { - p }$$

dx converge?

Use a graphing calculator to solve the equation.

$$5 ^ { - 2 x + 3 } = - 6 ^ { x + 5 }$$

Douglass was a great orator, and his style was influenced by his mastery of rhetorical devices. One of his signature techniques was his use of inverted parallelism, a reversal of ideas expressed in parallel phrases or clauses: "The longest days were too short for him, and the shortest nights too long for him." Identify the inverted parallelism in lines 99-100. In what ways does this reversal of ideas summarize Douglass's emotional experiences in this selection?

How might the writer's political purpose and the knowledge that she was writing for an audience of Northern white women have influenced her characterizations?

Social Studies Connection: Harriet Tubman once said, "We got to be free or die. And freedom's not bought with dust." What other American heroes would approve with her words? Explain your answers.

Find the following probabilities for X = pulse rates of women, for which the mean is 75 and the standard deviation is 8. Assume a normal distribution.

$$P(X\underline{<} 71)$$

$$P(X\underline{>} 85)$$

$$P(59\underline{<} X \underline{<} 95).$$

Joan Didion has remarked that "writing is hostile in that you're trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture." In what ways might the essay "Georgia O'Keeffe" be considered "hostile"? Did Didion achieve her goal of making you see Georgia O'Keeffe the same way she does? Explain your answer.

What anecdote, or short personal story, does Didion tell at the beginning of the essay "Georgia O'Keeffe"?

In "Georgia O'Keeffe," what did O'Keeffe's critics tend to think of her work?

Dickinson conveys what essential truths about death and dying in these poems: "My life closed twice before its close--"; "I heard a Fly buzz---when I died"?