Read the following paragraph, and answer the question.
Keeping my mind on my writing is not easy when I stay at my grandmother's ocean-side cottage. Just
about the time that I am going along pretty well, I glance out ifie window and see two huge bald eagles
swooping and tumbling in a spectacular aerial display. Naturally, I have to leave my desk and rush to the
doorway to watch the performance as long as it lasts. Then, as if a conspiracy were trying to keep me from
working, two otters poke their shiny heads out of the water and hang there motionless. They watch to see
what I am doing. As soon as I return to my desk, seagulls wheel into my window view and screech as they
search for scraps of food. Within minutes, this confusion of sounds stirs my aging St. Bernard out of a deep
sleep, and he hauls his massive, lumbering body over to be petted. Mickey, my cat, can't stand to see any
partiality, so he is soon pacing back and forth across my ankles. As I wiggle my bare toes to tease Mickey,
I realize that my legs have become stiff. I remember that I have not had my daily ride. So, I slip on my
sandals, step out the door, spring onto my bike, and pedal off down the beach. Meanwhile, the
composition in my typewriter sits and grows colder.
What are two details for the paragraph?
Keeping my mind on my writing is not easy when I stay at my grandmother's ocean-side cottage.
Then, as if a conspiracy were trying to keep me from working, two otters poke their shiny heads out of the water and hang there
motionless.
So, I slip on my sandals, step out the door, spring onto my bike and pedal off down the beach.

What to the slave is the fourth of july? by frederick douglass fellow-citizens—pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am i called upon to speak here to-day? what have i, or those i represent, to do with your national independence? are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that declaration of independence, extended to us? and am i, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings, resulting from your independence to us? but, such is not the state of the case. i say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. i am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. the blessings in which you this day rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. the rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. the sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. this fourth of july is yours, not mine. you may rejoice, i must mourn. to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, i hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are to-day rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. if i do forget, if i do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth! " to forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before god and the world. my subject, then, fellow-citizens, is american slavery. i shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. standing there, identified with the american bondman, making his wrongs mine, i do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this fourth of july. whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. what is one of the lessons douglass impresses on his listeners? a) the nation should not rejoice until everyone has freedom. b) he must speak on the fourth of july in order to bring change. c) for him to join the celebration would be treason. d) he can see the perspective of slaves and citizens with equal clarity.

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