What is the Medal of Honor and why is it found in this novel “restart” by Gordon Korman.

A fall from the house roof leaves eighth-grader Chase Ambrose with acute retrograde amnesia. He may not remember names and faces from before his accident, but his classmates certainly remember him, and for the majority of Hiawasee Middle School, the memories are none too pleasant. Chase was the ringleader of a circle of bullying football jocks, who terrorized weaker, nerdier students and even caused talented pianist Joel Weber to transfer to a boarding school. Chase, however, remembers none of this, and his return to school as a perfectly amiable guy is met with understandable skepticism. His football goons want their rowdy, nasty old boy back, but he's perfectly content now hanging with the kids in the video club, where a football player's dexterity translates well to operating a flip-cam. It's not easy, though, for Chase simply to chuck his problematic past and move on to fresher fields—decent friends, new skills, even a commitment to helping the elderly in a local assisted living center—since he's still in possession of a stolen Medal of Honor that he can't remember pilfering but that his old partners in crime know he has stashed away. The pranks of his new crew of "vidiots" and the grouchy outbursts of his new geriatric acquaintance, Mr. Solway, provide ample comic relief, but Chase's very real dilemma—how to remake his life when people (including himself) don't fully trust his character change—is the serious underpinning

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)

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