When rip returns from the forest, no one seems to recognize him. when he describes himself as "a loyal subject of the king, god bless him! ", he sends the town into an uproar. why was this a problem?

This was a problem as during his years of sleep, the United States had already been formed and the King no longer has any control over it.

Explanation:

Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" tells the story of how Rip Van Winkle slept through the formation of the United States. The setting of the story is before and after the American Revolutionary War, during which Winkle was asleep for two decades and did not know anything.

Rip Van Winkle was a Dutch- American villager residing in Catskill Mountains in New York. One day he went up to the mountains to escape his wife's nagging, met a group of old men and hung around with them, drinking their wine. When he woke up, he found that everything's changed. On reaching his village, he was asked who he voted for which prompted him to proclaim his loyalty to King George III. The townspeople laughed at him, some even wondering if he was a spy from England. Reality was, he had been asleep for around 20 years during which the United States had been to war and got its independence and thus, the election and the different surroundings.

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)

the answer is "a" although apex might say best book of the year.