My heart beat high now at the chance of action,
and drawing the sharp sword from my hip i went
along his flank to stab him where the midriff
holds the liver. i had touched the spot
when sudden fear stayed me: if i killed him
we perished there as well, for we could never
move his ponderous doorway slab aside.
so we were left to groan and wait for morning.

what prevents odysseus from killing the sleeping cyclops?

he thinks he can reason with the cyclops in the morning.
he wants to make the cyclops his ally and friend.
he knows that they cannot move the boulder blocking the doorway.
he feels sorry for the cyclops who lives all by himself.

spiderman is cool and epic

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)