In his 2012 state of the union address, president barack obama said:

"nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in american-made energy. we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and more than 75% of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. right now, american oil production is the highest that it's been in 8 years. last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past 16 years.

but with only 2% of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. this country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of american energy—a strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs."

analyze the types of appeal used in president obama's statement. use your findings and examples from the text to explain whether this is an argument or persuasion. answer in a minimum of three complete sentences.

98 points!

assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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