Read the excerpt from sojourner truth’s “an account of an experience with discrimination.” truth’s was to inform readers about a distressing experience and move them to put a stop to injustice. from “an account of an experience with discrimination” by sojourner truth i was in company with another friend, laura s. haviland of michigan. as i ascended the platform of the car, the conductor pushed me, saying “go back—get off here.” i told him i was not going off, then “i’ll put you off” said he furiously, clenching my right arm with both hands, using such violence that he seemed about to succeed, when mrs. haviland told him he was not going to put me off. “does she belong to you? ” said he in a hurried angry tone. she replied, “she does not belong to me, but she belongs to humanity.” specific purpose perspective general purpose tone description

How does specialization enable countries to trade with one another? a country can make and sell goods affordably and buy goods that it is inefficient at making. a country can make what it chooses and sell its goods to other countries. a country can decide to buy everything it needs from other countries. a country can efficiently make goods that were once difficult to make.

Nita is the office manager at a service station. two applicants, max and tim, arrive to interview for the open mechanic's position. max's clothes are dirty, his hair is unwashed, and he doesn't make eye contact when he gives nita his name. tim dresses in clean jeans and a nice shirt, is shaved, and shakes nita's hand when he introduces himself. after the interview, keith the head mechanic, asks nita what she thought. both men have the skill set needed for the position. nita recommends tim. she is responding to her perception of

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?