Shawn is having trouble listening effectively in his advanced philosophy course. Usually he listens well in class, but the professor in this case presents such complicated ideas that Shawn has difficulty following and retaining the lecture. Shawn is experiencing a listening obstacle known as:

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Shawn is having trouble listening effectively in his advanced philosophy course. Usually, he listens well in class, but the professor, in this case, is so full of information and he presents such complicated ideas that Shawn has difficulty following and retaining the lecture. Shawn is experiencing a listening obstacle known as .

a. message overload.

b. preoccupation.

c. message complexity.

d. prejudgment.

e. lack of mindfulness.

The right option is message complexity (c).

Explanation:

Message complexity is an obstacle in listening that occurs when the message is too complex for us to understand or it involves packed ideas with intricate reasoning.

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)

where is the poem at?