"all i gotta do" by nikki giovanni all i gotta do is sit and wait sit and wait and its gonna find me all i gotta do is sit and wait if i can learn how what i need to do is sit and wait cause i'm a woman sit and wait cause i'm a woman it'll find me you get yours and i'll get mine if i learn to sit and wait you got yours i want mine and i'm gonna get it cause i gotta get it cause i need to get it if i learn how thought about calling for it on the phone asked for a delivery but they didn't have it thought about going to the store to get it walked to the corner but they didn't have it called your name in my sleep sitting and waiting thought you would awake me called you name lying in bed but you didn't have it offered to go get it but you didn't have it so im sitting all i know is sitting and waiting waiting and sitting cause i'm a woman all i know is sitting and waiting cause i gotta wait wait for it to find me what is the main idea of the poem "all i gotta do"? a. if people want change, they need to ask for . b. woman who want change need to make it happen. c. if people are patient, they will eventually get what they want. d. women have to wait for others to give them what they want.

B. Woman who want change need to make it happen.

Explanation:

In this poem, Nikki Giovanni provides a commentary on the common idea that women have to wait for things to happen to them. Often, women are considered "passive" beings, and Giovanni criticizes this idea in the poem. Her ultimate goal is to subvert this assumption by showing that things do not simply "find us." Instead, we need to actively look for them. This means that if women want change, they actually need to work hard in order to make it happen.

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)