Objective summary of “What Fear Can Teach Us” by Karen Thompson Walker.

What Fear Can Teach Us by Karen Thompson Walker

The author tries to explain what fear is and how our minds have been conditioned to view it and how it affects us. She explains that fear is perceived as a weakness that we are always encouraged to overcome and be hopeful for the future. She is also of the opinion that fear makes us see things that are not there, which can be bad or which when harnessed can be good because we can look at possible outcomes and prepare how best to handle them.

She talked about how successful people used fear to get themselves ready for any circumstance and if those fears ever became reality, they were prepared, although it didn't always come to fruition.

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)

your answer is c) experiments with water vapor showed that elements combine in specific proportions.