Choose five words from five separate lines in the poem, "One Today" by Richard Blanco that you would have changed if you had been the original writer of this poem.

Write to explain what changes you would have made with these five word choices and why you would change them in this way.
Also explain how the use of the online dictionary and/or thesaurus assists you in making these choices.

The changes that I would have made are replacing;

The changes that I would have made to different words in this poem are the above. The reason for these changes is the fact that they are simpler and would be more easily understood by anyone reading the poem.

The online dictionary was helpful in choosing these words because it provided an array of synonyms that would be better replacements.

Learn more about synonyms here:

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Truth-Fortune

Charging-Whelming

Windows-Souls

Geometry-Lessons

Slide-Play

Explanation:

1. Poet has mentioned Truth to describe the world facts and wisdom, replacing fortune will make it more refreshing.

2. Chatrging onto the rocks or say mountains hits us hard in a away that  describe stumbling all around.Whelming refers to taking a hurdle with all smiles on and on.

3. Silent gestures played behind resembles silect actions for love and out of fondness. For this, windows can be inferred as souls..

4. Lerning geometries of life is essential which can be further inferred to be life lessons one should be aware of in order to deal with situations with humbleness, respect and regards.

5. Slide over here refers to a mopther seeing her children growing day by day beautifully as they slide off.The word alternative for this can be Play as well.

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)