Select all the correct answers. which two traits can you infer about mira in this excerpt from “games at twilight” by anita desai? the children, too, felt released. they too began tumbling, shoving, pushing against each other, frantic to start. start what? start their business. the business of the children’s day which is—play. “let’s play hide-and-seek.” “who’ll be it? ” “you be it.” “why should i? you be——” “you’re the eldest——” “that doesn’t mean——” the shoves became harder. some kicked out. the motherly mira intervened. she pulled the boys roughly apart. there was a tearing sound of cloth, but it was lost in the heavy panting and angry grumbling, and no one paid attention to the small sleeve hanging loosely off a shoulder. “make a circle, make a circle! ” she shouted, firmly pulling and pushing till a kind of vague circle was formed. “now clap! ” she roared, and, clapping, they all chanted in melancholy unison: “dip, dip, dip—my blue ship——” and every now and then one or the other saw he was safe by the way his hands fell at the crucial moment—palm on palm, or back of hand on palm—and dropped out of the circle with a yell and a jump of relief and jubilation. mira is more mature than the other kids in the group. mira is acting like a leader for the group of children. mira is pushing around the other kids and hoping to win the game. mira is arrogant and haughty and tries to disrupt the kids’ games.

A) Mira is more mature than the other kids in the group and B) Mira is acting like a leader for the group of children

In this excerpt, Mira is showing her maturity by stopping the boys from fighting by pulling them apart. The author even goes as far as describing Mira as "motherly", which also reinforces the idea that Mira has a higher level of maturity in caring for others, which makes option A a correct answer. Moreover, Mira is looking to take charge of the situation and find a way to calm the boys, which she does by telling them to make a circle and clap. Therefore, option B is a correct answer too, as Mira is doing what a group leader would do in the same situation.

Option C, "Mira is pushing around other kids and hoping to win the game" is not correct because the conflict happened while the kids were trying to decide their own roles in the game. The game hadn't started yet, so Mira can't be pushing anyone around with hopes of winning an unexistent game.

Option D, "Mira is arrogant and haughty and tries to disrupt the kids' games" is also incorrect because Mira separates the boys to prevent a bigger fight, not to disrupt their game.

I just took the test in Plato the answer is A and B

Explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.