Role play the situation that you are an advice column writer and have just received this letter from a reader. respond to your reader in a letter that addresses the situation. give the person at least 5 ideas to them and then reasons (support) for your ideas. dear advice giver, i am a seventy year old woman. i feel that life has passed me by and that there is nothing left for me. my husband of 48 years died last year and my three children are all grown and live away. i have friends but many of them have spouses and i do not want to be a third wheel. i have never worked outside of my house since my family was my occupation. my health is declining and from long hours of watching television, my eyes are tired and i am rather stiff most days. i would like to take piano lessons but i feel that i am too old. there is not much that i feel that i can do and i am so lonely. can you offer me any advice? sincerely, desperate

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)