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Answer one of the following prompts in a thesis-driven, well-developed essay. Be sure to use specific references and quotations for support.

3. In "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," Frederic Douglass uses his admiration of the principles set forth in The Declaration of Independence to criticize the U.S. Government's and American society's continued sanctioning of slavery in 1851. How can Lars Eighner's argument in "Dumpster Diving" be understood as a similar appeal to mythic American values?