When Tolkien attended King Edward VI’s school in Birmingham, he mastered…

Tolkien mastered Latin and Greek. Then in college at oxford he majored in philology; the study of languages.

Explanation:

J.R.R Tolkien loved languages, his mother Mable Tolkien  paid for his tuition to attend king Edward school in Birmingham, England when they returned to England from South Africa. Tolkien had great interest in languages, He mastered Latin and Greek and was also developing his own language.

After his mother Mabel passed away October 15, 1904, life was hard on Tolkien and his brother. The father Francis Morgan became their guardian.

Tolkien looked towards college, then was first rejected at oxford but was later accepted, where he majored in philology;the study of languages. At oxford, he read classic literature, Gothic, old English, welsh and Finnish.

Tolkien proposed to Edith in 1916 while still studying in oxford. he soon received his first class degree in philology.

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)