On the whole, Andrea and I had a good time on the President Taft. In the evenings we often watched movies. In the afternoons we made pigs of ourselves at tea where we had our pick of all kinds of dainty sandwiches, scones, macaroons, chocolate bonbons, and gooey tarts. Actually, I even liked going to bed on shipboard. I'd lie in my bunk and feel the ship's engines throbbing and know that even when I fell asleep I wouldn't be wasting time. I'd still be on the go, moving closer to America every minute. What is most likely the narrator's goal for this paragraph

The answer is to be found in the last sentence.

Explanation:

First the narrator describes a pleasant journey on a ship and then uses the sentence where she ( I imagine a woman, I don´t know why) talks about sleeping on the ship to express the most important thing about this journey: it brings her (or him) closer to America every minute. As a traveller myself (but not a tourist) I can understand very well the importance of travelling and enjoying yourself while shortening the distance to your goal.

The reason why I don´t like tourism is because travel is converted into mere displacement.

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)

do you have a copy of the poem?