Why do you think suspenseful stories continue to be popular today? consider the effect of suspense on readers.

They speak to our irrational side.  They free our imagination and make us childlike.  They allow emotion to triumph over reason.  They remind us of the problem of evil.  They take us out of the safe, everyday world.  They stir our curiosity and excite us.  They cause an adrenaline rush.  They make us imagine the most dire ending.

Explanation:

animal farm is a novel about a group of animals who take control of the farm they live on. the animals get fed up of their master, farmer jones, so they kick him out. however, trouble brews as the pigs, napoleon and snowball, fight for the hearts and minds of the other animals on the farm.

explanation:

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)