Part A What is a theme in this passage? Life has predictable stages. People become childish in old age. Life ends in nothingness. People often pretend to be someone they are not. Question 2 Part B Which line from the passage supports the answer to Part A? "Is second childishness and mere oblivion," (line 27) "His acts being seven ages." (line 5) "And all the men and women merely players;" (line 2) "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." (line 28)

Life ends in nothingness.

"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." (line 28)

Explanation:

The given passage is from the monologue of Jacques in William Shakespeare's romantic comedy play "As You Like It". The monologue, more commonly known as "The Seven Ages of Man" presents the various stages of a man's life.

The main theme of the poem/ monologue is how life ends in nothingness. Despite the many stages of being a schoolboy, lover, judge, getting old, etc, a man's life is just full of that seven stages and then ends in nothing. He goes back to being a child and then becomes oblivious.

This theme is supported by the very last line of the poem "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." This line perfectly sums up a man's life, starting with nothing, from oblivion and then going back to oblivion, doing a full circle.

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)

can you provide the possible answers