Read this excerpt from lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun: his sister beneatha enters. she is about twenty, as slim and intense as her brother. she is not as pretty as her sister-in-law, but her lean, almost intellectual face has a handsomeness of its own. she wears a bright-red flannel nightie, and her thick hair stands wildly about her head. what does the description of beneatha in this excerpt best reveal about her as a character?
a. it reveals that she is envious that her sister-in-law is prettier than she is.
b. it shows that she thinks she is intellectually superior to her family.
c. it shows that she is her own person and doesn't care about how she looks.
d. it reveals that she and her brother walter have a great deal in common.

The answer is C.  IT SHOWS THAT SHE IS HER OWN PERSON AND DOESN'T CARE ABOUT SHE LOOKS.

IF you don't see this similar answer, it's rewritten like this: "SHE IS HER OWN PERSON AND DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HOW SHE LOOKS"

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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)