(1) i never set out to become a buddhist. (2) it happened by accident one afternoon when i stumbled into a lecture given by a tibetan lama. (3) in fact, according a pew research study conducted a few years ago there are close to 500 million buddhists worldwide. (4) the lama spoke so gently and thoughtfully about the need for compassion, especially in this day and age when violence is exploding everywhere, politics creates more problems than solutions, and more people seem to be interested in "selfies" than selflessness. (5) i had always wanted to go to tibet, though. (6) the lama spoke about his own experiences during the invasion of his homeland, and how the sense of deep compassion he'd developed during his years of monastic training him to avoid feeling hatred toward the invaders. which of the sentences detracts from the unity of the paragraph?

The correct answers are 3 and 5.

Explanation:

Sentences 3 and 5 add extra information that does not add to the explanation of the lama's lecture.

This makes the sentence lose its sense of unity, since the theme seems to be divided in different parts.

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)

write a five paragraph essay, you were taught to have three body paragraphs. a university essay is more flexible than that, depending on its length and on what it is trying to say. a short university essay may have three body paragraphs, but it may have more.