“the real world is riddled with people who have never learned to carry their own skis…” what does this quote from “carry your own skis” mean?
a. a lot of people who go skiing don’t know how to carry their own skis.
b. a lot of people in the real world have never been skiing.
c. a lot of people have not learned to take responsibility for themselves.
d. a lot of people don’t like the cold-weather sports like skiing.

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