Activity 24: Discovering Meaning Directions: Read the quote that follows. Then, using the Text Editor, respond to the questions below.

"Do you really think that we have the problems that your papers are reporting?" Hamid asked. "Do you think that the people who have lived together for more years

than your country has been in existence suddenly find it impossible? That the hatred has grown so quickly between Sunnis and Shiites that we must shoot each other

and bomb each other? No, my friend. Everyone knows that eventually you will miss the warmth of your own bed, the blue eyes of your own wives, and then you will go

home. Then who will rule Iraq?"

• What is the main conflict that Hamid is describing in Iraq?

• How is his perception different than what is being reported on the news?

• Robin states often that their goal is to bring democracy to Iraq. How does this statement show conflict between that goal and what Hamid is describing?

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.

the correct answer can either be a or b because it could be both but you should probally choose b