Read the following excerpt from farewell to Manzanar by Jean Houston and answer the question that follows. Farewell to Manzanar is a story that tells about inside a Japanese internment camp during WWII
[Mama] would quickly subordinate her own desires to those of the family or the community because she knew cooperation was only way to survive. At the same time she placed a high premium on personal privacy, respected it in others and insisted upon it for herself. ...Almost everyone at Manzanar had inherited this pair of traits from the generations before them who had learned to live in a small, crowded country like Japan.”

Which of the following best explains the themes explored by this passage?

A. The theme explored is one of losing one’s beliefs in order to satisfy the expectations placed on you by others.

B. The theme explored is one of courage and being brave in the face of hardships.

C. The theme explored is one of war and what a country will do in order to win and protect its land.

D. The theme explored is the importance of family. Even when having nothing else, they still had their family.

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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)