Refer to your Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? book for a complete version of this text.
Part A
What is a main idea of Chapter 7?
A) As a new judge, Sonia requires extra time to consider both sides of a case before ruling.
B) Sonia has trouble choosing between working as a judge or running for public office.
C) Sonia earns a reputation as a fair and capable judge with her ruling in the baseball strike case.
D) Despite all her experience, Sonia finds she is uncomfortable in her role as a judge.

C) Sonia earns a reputation as a fair and capable judge with her ruling in the baseball strike case.

Explanation:

"Who is Sonia Sotomayor" is a biographical book by Megan Stine about the famous judge.

Chapter 7 of this book tells us about the hard and long process of her becoming a judge in the District Court in New York. We also get familiar with the the US Court system and her feelings when she was elected a judge in 1990s.

However, the main part of this chapter is the description of her first big case, a major league baseball players' strike. The strike had already lasted 7 months and the competition was jeopardized. It was expected that, due to the complexity of the case, she would take weeks to reach the verdict, she proved herself as a capable judge by making the fair desicion instantly, thus earning a reputation, becoming famous and being named "the person who saved baseball".

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)