Which theme is found in this story? the boy who bragged one evening, a group of boys were playing catch at the playground. then they happened to notice a few young men performing tricks with their skateboards. the boys were amazed to see the stunts and soon forgot about their own game. one of the boys always liked to show off to his friends. he took the skateboarding tricks as a challenge. he began boasting about how silly and simple those tricks were. he said that anyone could do them. at first his friends didn’t pay much attention to his words. but then he told them he owned a skateboard and had done all these tricks before. the boy, of course, was not being completely honest. he thought a few harmless little lies here and there wouldn’t hurt. he only wanted to make himself sound more interesting so that his friends would think he was cool. eventually, his boasting got so loud that the group of skateboarders heard him. they encouraged him to show them his talent. the boy was terrified at this idea. but he couldn’t refuse without seeming like a coward to his friends. he had been watching the skateboarders for a while and believed he knew enough from simply looking. however, that belief soon proved to be wrong. when he tried to copy one of the tricks he saw, he came crashing down on the ground. after that, his friends laughed at him for making up lies, and his stories always went unheard even if they were true. a. the truth will always come out in the end. b. words are always more important than actions. c. boasting only impresses ignorant people. d. never give away too much information to strangers. e. friendship is more important than popularity.

I believe that the Answer would be A. The truth will always come out in the end.

Explanation: The answer is A. the truth will always come out because the boy was not completely honest because about the skateboard he said he got a skateboard, and he can do all the tricks with them, but he was not telling the truth. Then  he did not know what to do when his friends told him to show him he looked cowardly to him and did not know what to do, so they found out that he could not do all these tricks. That's why I picked A. The truth always come out.  

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)

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.