1) "Just as a sword is only as strong as its sharpest edge, a person's intellect is only as sharp as their ability to think critically."
2) "Just as a pencil is only as strong as its eraser, a person's intellect is only as strong as their ability to forget what they have learned."
Over time, Douglass begins to think that “learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.” Why does he come to feel this way? Explain, citing evidence from the excerpt.
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Explanation:
Knowledge, the ability to use smarts, statistics, and data in a situation or problem.
Knowledge can be a gift, or a weapon. Knowledge was needed to make the iPhone, TV, electricity. Those are pros, cons however are: school, tests, quizzes, math, the building of foreign weapons, bombs, missals etc.
That is why Douglass was upset about the gift of knowledgeable abilities.
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Answer:
learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing
Explanation:
Which textual evidence from “The Relationship between Hunger and War” best supports the idea that starving enemy armies or people has long been a strategy used by people at war with one another?
A. Sixty percent of the millions of people suffering from poor diets in 2016 lived in areas of armed conflict.
B. Wars are violent and harmful, but destruction of resources can do more damage than weapons.
C. The resolution tells all parties to maintain food stocks, farms, markets, and delivery methods.
D. During the U.S. Civil War, Union soldiers had rules that allowed them to starve enemy soldiers.
Answer: D.
Explanation: