Discussion topic
think about the experiences you've had with dramatic texts, including seeing live performances or film adaptations. how does the era in which a play was written affect your ability to enjoy it or understand it? how is it different to read or see a play written more than two millennia ago (such as tragedies and comedies from ancient greece) compared to a few centuries ago (for example, shakespeare or others from the renaissance) or one produced in the last 100 years?
is there something like a modern sensibility to more recently written dramatic works that you connect better to them than to works from past centuries? are there traits in older forms of drama that engage you because they are not modern? describe the traits of drama that keep you engaged as well as characteristics that make it challenging to do so.

the answer is slaves

douglas was a slave who turned into a statesman and he refused to celebrate the 4th of july until all slaves were emancipated or set free.

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).