Ineed finding the theme for this essay. the essay is: letters trip over each other as they race to leave my mouth. my tongue lines them up in order as they march ot the microphone:
a-s-
i am almost alone on the stage.
one lastkid sags with his head
in his hands. he is mouthing each letter as i say it:
c-e-n-
the hours i have spent on the floor of my room with books in my lap like wounded birds and cramping wrists now seem worth it:
d-a-
there are lists of words scribbled in my cursive and spelled out in my parents' print
on top of dictionaries and thesauruses:
n-c-y
there is applause and i smile.
i shake the seventh-grade boy's hand and whisper, "i'll meet you back here next year for a rematch."
a-s-c-e-n-d-a-n-c-y.

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.

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)