read these passages:

it was at the theater and at carnegie hall that paul really lived; the rest was but a sleep and a forgetting. this was paul’s fairy tale, and it had for him all the allurement of a secret love.…

it was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of cordelia street were to close over him finally and forever. the gray monotony stretched before him in hopeless, unrelieved years; sabbath school, young peoples meeting, the yellow-papered room, the damp dishtowels; it all rushed back upon him with a sickening vividness. he had the old feeling that the orchestra had suddenly stopped, the sinking sensation that the play was over….

the carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed, their red glory all over. it occurred to him that all the flowers he had seen in the glass cases that first night must have gone the same way, long before this. it was only one splendid breath they had, in spite of their brave mockery at the winter outside the glass; and it was a losing game in the end…

write a paragraph in which you analyze how the context and language structures of the passages convey willa cather’s intent and viewpoint in “paul’s case.” use details from the passages to support your main idea.

she could put on music that makes her sleep

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)

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.