1. daystar is about struggle. what is the overarching subject?   a. climate changeb. racismc. motherhoodd. astronomy  daystarshe wanted a little room for thinking:   but she saw diapers steaming  on the line, a doll slumped behind the door.  so she lugged a chair behind  the garage to sit out the  children's napssometimes there were things to watch--  the pinched armor of a vanished cricket,  a floating maple leaf. other days she stared until she  was assured when she closed  her eyes she'd only see her own  vivid blood. she had an hour, at best,  before liza appeared pouting from  the top of the stairs. and just what was mother doing  out back with the field mice?   why, building a palace. later that night when thomas  rolled over and lurched into her, she would open her eyes  and think of the place that was hers  for an hour--where she was nothing,  pure nothing, in the middle of the day

C. Motherhood

The poem describes the struggles that a mother goes through. The mother in this text is always available to fulfill everybody's needs, and she feels overwhelmed with all her duties. She feels she has no time to think and be herself because when she wants "a little room for thinking" she sees "diapers steaming on the line." The narrator says that the only time the mother finds to relax and be on her own is an hour while the child, Liza, sleeps. This is the only place that is "hers."

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)

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.