The unexpected plays an important part in this particular text. We also get a glimpse into gender roles and how they are manipulated in this piece. Before we go on to analyze, take a few minutes to write down what you think gender roles are in our society today. Gender refers to male or female and roles refer to the way they are expected to think or behave. Do you think there are clearly defined gender roles in today's society? Are men expected to act a certain way? Are women? Support your position with examples. Make sure that your sentences are legible and clear. Follow all writing conventions including those for capitalization and punctuation.

Gender roles have changed through the years. Many years ago women had to stay home taking care of their children, they could not work. It is not like that anymore, but there are still a lot of gender roles in today's society. Nowadays, movements such us feminism are trying to get rid of them, however, it is impossible to say they are not there. Men and women are definitely expected to act a certain way in different situations. For example, women cannot have hair in their bodies but men have to, and women are expected to be sensitive but men cannot cry because that is not masculine. These examples are social constructions, the truth is women can have body hair and men can cry.

Explanation:

To complete this exercise, you have to write about gender roles giving examples. It's important to understand how gender roles have changed through the years to realize that they can keep changing because they are not universal truths.

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)