Read the excerpts from the namesake.

excerpt 1: he is afraid to be nikhil, someone he doesn’t know. who doesn’t know him. his parents tell him that they each have two names, too, as do all their bengali friends in america, and all their relatives in calcutta. it’s a part of growing up, they tell him, part of being a bengali.

excerpt 2: it is nothing like the schooling gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. here the only official ritual is pledging allegiance first thing in the morning to the american flag.

which statement best tells how the main conflict in the first excerpt is different from the main conflict in the second excerpt?

a. the first shows an external conflict related to emotion, while the second shows an internal conflict related to cultural differences.

b. the first shows an internal conflict related to emotion, while the second shows an external conflict related to cultural differences.

c. the first shows a global conflict related to cultural differences, while the second shows a personal conflict related to family dynamics.

d. the first shows a global conflict related to family dynamics, while the second shows a personal conflict related to cultural differences.

(the answer is b)

the patriots are

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)

jungkook (if i had to pick one) but all of them rly!

explanation:

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