1. the text says: “‘it was half the stevenses’ calf by rights,’ she said, trying to diminish for both of them the enormity of what she had done” (43). what do diminish and enormity mean? how do context clues you figure that out? what does this sentence us to infer about how they are feeling?

Explanation:

Enormity: large huge. The consequences are almost not able to be measured.

Diminish: Cut down enormity. She is trying to make smaller what had happened. Likely it was not going to work.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

i'm sorry faith, i dont know how to you on this if you have any other questions hmu okay?