Celeste dreaded passing through Miranda Perot's house on her way to the school. Miranda had a way of gazing at a person and making him or her feel nervous. Celeste
always felt that she wore a wrong color or she forgot to wash her hair when her eyes
met Miranda's. This was not the case a few years ago. Celeste and Miranda used to
walk hand in hand and share their lunches at school. Now, they spoke less and hung
out with different crowds.
It was another dreaded Monday morning and Celeste was walking to the bus. She
felt something was not right. Waking up from a nightmare and burning the toast for
breakfast had made Celeste jittery. She felt as if it was taking hours to cross the road
and reach the bus stop. Suddenly, something grabbed Celeste by the collar and pulled
her aside. A reckless driver had almost hit her, and she was saved just in time. Celeste
was jittery all over again. When she turned around to thank the stranger, she saw a
familiar face smiling at her.
"Mention not," Miranda abruptly said. She grabbed Celeste's backpack that had
fallen on the road and gestured her to move on.
A theme of this selection is
friendships are often more complicated than they seem.
society trains people to become different from the others.
o it is easier to criticize a person than to save him or her.
O people are often insecure and unaware of their strengths.

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)

could you put the choices and excert up hun

this quote could be referring to the death penalty. it's questioning the morality of sentencing murderers to death as a punishment, because it seems hypocritical. this quote seems to be arguing for non-lethal punishment for killers.

the answer is b, it brings the reader closer to the action.

it would've been a if the word had been determined, not conceited

hope this

-ironwolfx