Read the excerpt from the land. i recall one time in particular when i was about nine or so and i was reading beside a creek on my daddy's land, and mitchell came up from behind me and just whopped me on the head. for no reason. just whopped me on the head! course i jumped up mad. "what ya do that for? " i cried. paul asks mitchell, “what ya do that for? ” because he wants to know his conflict. context. influence. motivation.

His motivation.

The Land is a novel by African American author Mildred D. Taylor, published in 2001. It is the fifth and final book of the Logan Family saga.

In this excerpt, Paul asks “What ya do that for?,” which is intended as a way to discover the reasons for Mitchell to hit him in the head. "Motivation" refers to the purpose we want to achieve by performing some action.

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)

uh, the answer is d i guess.