Correct the grammar and verb of this 2 paragraph

it was pleasantly surprised to hear from you. It's been a long time since I've been hearing from you. tell your mom that I said hi. you know, last week I just met my cousin's whos was live in America and didn't come back after so long.

I know her since I was born. well, of course, because she is my cousin. we always playing together, laughing together, having fun together and more things that we used to do together. Nathalie (her name) and I just like a best friend. her house and I are near to each other so we always went to a sleepover at each other house. even though she was 5 years older than me.

Which ideas should he brianstorm about in order to write an effective essay select four options

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

In the sentence from barbara kingsolver’s “life without go go boots”, “writers are supposed to be eccentric,” the word eccentric is a euphemism for