Write an email / letter about: you recently met your english teacher, whom you have not seen for 30 years and have changed a lot. 1. describe the circumstances of the meeting. 2. write how the person has changed. 3. suggest a friend to whom you write to organize a meeting with the whole class and your tutor.

  Dear Jonathan,

  I've recently run into Mr. Stroud, our old English teacher. Remember how he helped us out through life problems with his class lessons about 30 or so years ago? Well, he's changed a lot... But not for the better. He's recently lost his wife to cancer, and because she was pregnant, he lost their baby boy, only just having begun the second trimester. Jonathan, you and I go way back. I need your help to get our class together in a meeting with Mr. Stroud so that we can be there for him in his time of need like he once was for us when we all lost Rachael. I met him when we bumped into each other on a Brooklyn subway when I went to visit my mother in law. John, Mr. Stroud is a shell of him self. He isn't the same man we once knew. He's trying to be strong, but we talked for a while, and I can tell: He's a broken man Jonathan. I know you still keep in touch with a lot of our old friends, and you know Joshua right? Maybe you could try to get him to help us get the class together. We could all meet at the school, I asked Mr. Stroud if he'd ever visit it, and he said that if he could, then he'd love to. So I called up the school, they're up for it. All we need now is for our class to show up, and I can bring Mr. Stroud.

Sincerely yours, your friend, (your name here).

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)

they fear for their lives