Use one of the following topic sentences to write a well-developed paragraph of at least 150 words. Supply the specific details or examples that support the topic sentence you choose. Our dog is a nuisance to the neighbors. Baby-sitting is an easy way to earn money. My younger sister or brother has an easier life than I did. Taxation in America today is confiscatory. A guaranteed annual wage would destroy this country. Many wild plants are edible. The metric system should, or should not, be imposed on Americans. Inflation steals from older people who have saved money all their lives.

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