Goodbye to my twinkie days by nguyen

comprehension: 1, 2, 3, 4

1. why?

2. what is the significance of a”snack cake”?

3. what does she mean? in what sense is junk food particularly american?

4. what special meaning do hostess twinkies have for asian americans?

purpose & audience 1, 2, 3

1. how much does nguyen assume her readers know about twinkies? how can you tell?

2. what is nguyen’s purpose? is she writing about how much she will miss twinkies, or is she writing about something else? explain.

3. does this essay have an explicitly stated thesis, or is the thesis implied? what dominant impression does nguyen want to convey?

style & structure: 2, 3

2. why does nguyen mention pollan? what point is she trying to make?

3. instead of the colon, why doesn’t nguyen use a comma? instead of the semicolon, why doesn’t she use a period?

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)

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.

answer: #1 is (a) however

explanation: