Read the following passage from joseph stalin's radio broadcast shortly after
germany invaded the ussr in 1941:
non-aggression pacts are pacts of peace between two
states. it was such a pact that germany proposed to us in
1939. could the soviet government have declined such a
proposal? i think that not a single peace-loving state could
decline a peace treaty with a neighboring state even
though the latter was headed by such fiends and cannibals
as hitler and ribbentrop.
which argument is most clearly developed by the rhetoric used in the
passage?

Consider the last two lines of the poem again. why do you think the old woman sees herself as a terrible fish? why did she choose to compare her to a fish? why do you think she chose to use the word "terrible"? write your answer in two hundred words.

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

Which trait is common to the narrators in these excerpts? a the narrators were born in poverty the narrators were separated from their birth parents c. the narrators grew up to be criminals d the narrators worked hard in lide to improva their ocial status the narrators blamed themselves for their mistortunps