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a friend in need
the morning after the rugby championship, jerome reached for his phone, prepared to enjoy the usual flood of photos that tended to appear following a game. lying in bed thumbing through hundreds of shots and flagging his favorites to save was his customary post-game ritual. but instead of the barrage of celebratory excitement he expected, jerome found a somber post from his teammate martin, saying that his mother, who had suffered from a terminal illness, had passed away that morning. the post already had more than fifty responses offering thoughts and prayers to the family, and several people—including many of jerome’s teammates—had written that martin could call on them if he needed anything. below martin’s post, jerome saw some of the photos he’d initially gotten on his phone to browse through, but they were no longer enticing, in light of martin’s tragedy.
jerome wandered through the morning with the weight of martin’s news crowding his thoughts. in the early afternoon, he sought out his mother in the garage where she was boxing up old clothing for a charity rummage sale. he explained that martin’s mom had died, and told her how he felt about his friend’s loss. “what do you plan to do for him? ” his mother asked. jerome thought for several moments, aware that his mother had paused her sorting to give him her full attention. finally, he said, “i don’t know what to do. i guess i should tell him to let me know if he needs anything, but that doesn’t feel like enough.” jerome’s mother leaned against the edge of the table and nodded slowly. “yes, i think plenty of people are willing to if he asks. maybe you should go visit him—take a meal or something he enjoys.”
jerome returned to his room with his mother’s advice weighing on his mind. he thought showing up at martin’s house uninvited seemed too much like barging in during a sensitive time, so he opted instead to offer dinner and company via a text message first. because martin was not usually the type of person who liked to accept or talk about his emotions, jerome was surprised when his inquiry received a quick “that would be great” in response. with his mother’s , jerome prepared a tray of food for martin and his father.
martin’s house was silent when jerome arrived with the care package. martin’s father had gone to make funeral arrangements, and martin sat waiting by himself on the back porch. jerome carried the food inside and returned to sit and converse with martin. jerome said, “i thought you might have too much going on already. i saw everyone post online.” martin said, “i don’t think anyone wanted to be in the way today, so i’m glad you came.” jerome didn’t mean to stay long, but he and martin started to chat, and soon they were reliving childhood memories and even chatting about the championship game from the night before. they ate together and played old board games until martin’s father returned later that evening. jerome excused himself then, promising to stop again soon.
later that night while he sat with his family to watch the news, jerome got a text from martin him again for being there. only then did jerome realize that no one else had stopped by the entire afternoon, despite the plethora of messages offering to martin and his dad. the -you text made jerome feel good, and he realized that he would want someone to do the same thing for him in a similar situation. the local tv news came on then, and jerome put his phone away to watch the lead story, which was about a house fire. a family’s home across town had burned to the ground overnight because of an electrical malfunction. the family and their pets got out safely, but they lost everything. the newscaster provided a link to a website that had been established to organize assistance for the family. more than two hundred signatures were in the guest book when jerome clicked on the site. “that’s quite a shame,” jerome’s father said. “i sure hope they have enough assistance getting things cleaned up.”
“the website says they need volunteers to haul away debris tomorrow,” jerome said. and, thinking of his mother’s advice from earlier in the day, and of martin’s text, he added, “i’m going to message the team. i think i should be able to get a few people together to go.” jerome watched the number of signatures on the event page tick up as the web address scrolled across the bottom of the tv screen. he wondered how many people would actually show up to out and how many would simply hope that enough others did. in the end, he decided it didn’t matter. he would be there, and he would do whatever he could to .

what is the theme of “a friend in need”? what details introduce and develop the theme? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be at least one complete paragraph.

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)

by: nita twenty thousand leagues under the sea some time ago, i decided to read twenty thousand leagues under the sea, by jules verne. i figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. in addition, it was science fiction, the one area that i was always interested. my assumption was only partially correct, for i only was to a degree interested in the piece of writing. when jules verne was writing this book, he must have been reading some incredibly dull science book the day before, for that was what the book was written as.  

the style of writing was utterly against my tastes, and though the plot was moderately interesting, the style of writing really ruined it. often, the author will trail off describing some marine animal for pages at a time. two entire chapters were almost entirely this! however, the setting and characters of the story seemed to be well thought out. nevertheless, 20,000 leagues under the sea was an extremely tedious volume. when the story was introduced, jules verne described m. aronnax, the main character, whose love for marine biology was more important than anything else to him did.  

this immediately led to the international crisis about a bizarre aquatic creature, which immediately dragged m. aronnax into the action. due to his expertise on the matter, the public expected pierre to be the one to solve this mystery. m. aronnax, under all this pressure, concluded that the animal was to be called the narwhale. at first, the matter was taken lightly, and only expert scientists were involved. however, when this animal began to become a threat to all ships in the water, the military took the issue into its own hands.  

it promptly fitted a frigate, the abraham lincoln, to destroy the beast, and invited pierre to join them, for his science capabilities. for many months they searched, but could not find this narwhale anywhere. when they found it, it attacked the ship, disabling it, and sending m. aronnax, ned land (a harpooner) and conseil (servant of pierre) overboard. soon, the three were guests in the narwhale, now known to be a ship, the nautilus, commanded by captain nemo. during the stay aboard the nautilus, pierre conseil and ned encounter and discover many wonderful and interesting facts from the sea. often, they would accompany the captain in an under water expedition.  

several of these excursions were to hunt, and others were simply to explore a submarine region. one of the times when the purpose was just to investigate an underwater region, captain nemo and m. aronnax explored the lost city of atlantis. on a separate occasion, pierre found that there was a supply of coal underwater that the nautilus used as a source of fuel. in addition to underwater excursions, the nautilus itself was on a round the world journey, which accounted for the most exiting time of the book. this was when captain nemo was attempting to access the south pole.  

that meant passing the great ice barrier, and surviving with very little air. during this rather long voyage, the submarine gets wedged between two icebergs, and is almost crushed! to add to this, the inhabitants of the nautilus almost die of suffocation from the lack of air. finally, at the end of the book, the three friends narrowly escape that nautilus.  

this all occurs during the maelstrom, which is a deadly storm, which makes the escape so daring. at the end, the three friends end up in a fisherman's shack, not knowing how they arrived, for they were knocked unconscious. that is how the events in the story twenty thousand leagues under the sea took place. the main character in this book was an extremely well recognized marine biologist named m. pierre aronnax. m. aronnax is one who gets the most benefit throughout the course of the book. pierre was always curious, which often got in the way of following his instincts and good judgment.  

also, he sometimes talked to himself! in addition, his faithful servant, conseil, follows his master during all of his adventures. conseil never really said much, and the role he played was one of a calm and humble person. another character of importance was ned land, the most well known harpooner of all his time. this man proved himself to be very useful when the threesome attempt to escape the nautilus. on the other hand, ned land was always quick tempered, and free willed.  

these qualities almost got many people killed many times during the book. the next most important character and perhaps the most outlandish one of all was captain nemo. note that this was not his real name, however, the actual name was never given in the book. captain nemo was forever strict and secretive to everyone. he never showed any emotion on his face, and never showed any bodily expressions in any way except when he was in extreme anguish. the setting that the story took place in was quite interesting.  

explanation:

the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.

that is true because that is something they fulfill for their work.