4. next, consider this example: throughout the story, akela’s words and actions show him to be an honorable leader who upholds the law of the jungle as best he can. he also knows that the law of the jungle states that when he cannot bring down his buck, the other wolves must kill him and choose another leader. however, when the council meets and mowgli masters the wolves, the narrator says: akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at mowgli… is akela appealing to mowgli’s respect for the law or his sense of compassion? support your answer with evidence from the text.

story: the jungle book

this labor, by slow prudence to make mild.   c. ability to govern well

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.