In what ways can names be empowering? In what ways can names be limiting?
What are some steps we can take in this class to make sure that our names are always empowering and never limiting?

Names can be empowering when they give us a sense of identity and esteem.

Names can be limiting when they classify us among a group that people do not like associating with.

To ensure that our names are always empowering, we need to be of good conduct so that people can look beyond our names and be happy to associate with a personality like ours.

In all, good behavior will prevent the limiting nature of a name.

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Empower means to be confident and strong in life and claiming their rights.

Names can be empowering in many ways as sometimes names give you the confidence or power of doing something in which your name is based on. For example - if a girl name "Trudy", it is a German name which means “spear of strength”. Whenever a person feels depressed or non-powerful, their names can make them remember and give strength to become like the name they got.

Names can be limiting as well that bounds a person in its boundaries and limit themselves to open up. Sometimes, the negative meaning name gives negative values to the person and limit their capabilities of empowerment.

In class we can follow the following steps that our names are always empowering and never limiting:

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) madame podtochina used witchcraft to make it disappear.