Read the excerpt from fitzgerald’s the great gatsby.
the windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. a breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about the buchanans?

a. they are people of exquisite taste and refinement, who have spent a fortune on the decorations of their home.
b. the image of luxury and elegance that they project is unstable like the wind blowing through the room.
c. the buchanans have fallen on desperate times and are trying to mask their financial collapse from friends.
d. like the open windows of their house, the buchanans openly embrace new people and new ideas.

B. The image of luxury and elegance that they project is unstable like the wind blowing through the room.

The Buchanans are definetly described as one of the richest families in the country, but they are troubled from the core, from a wife that doesn´t love her husband, to a husband that keeps cheating on her wife, her life is unestable just like the wind.

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)