Given the nature of humanity, do you think Montag and the professors will be able to help rebuild a healthy, successful society or are people doomed to repeat this destructive pattern?

It depends

Explanation:

Looking at human history through the ages we see a repetitive cycle of civilizations, countries and the like who start of building a society based on equality, liberty and fraternity, and then somehow get lost to end up as class-divided and authoritarian societies.

Nevertheless, in Fahrenheit 451 we can only have admiration and faith for Montag and the professors, who start of very good by conserving the treasures of wisdom that books present.

As the Greek philosophers already found out, it all depends on education: if  the ones in power are willing to share knowledge and educate people then the prospects look good; if not, then the nation is doomed from the start. Because:

Knowledge = freedom; ignorance = slavery

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)

a) he encouraged islamic schools to introduce greek texts.

d) he invited greek scholars to teach their texts to the locals.

explanation: