Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a
new generation of Americans-born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace,
proud of our ancient heritage-and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to
which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the
world.
What is the purpose of this excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address as it relates to the speech as a
whole?
Kennedy is arguing that because America is the strongest nation in the world, it is America's responsibility to save the rest of the
world.
Kennedy is complimenting his audience for their strength so that they will be more likely to fulfill his request for generosity.
Kennedy is getting his audience worked up and angry so that they will be prepared to take the nation into war.
Kennedy is requesting that his audience consider the children of the future when making important decisions in the present.

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar. and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic. my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.