Which of the following are appropriate thesis statements for the themes in the death of ivan ilych by leo tolstoy?

a. tolstoy demonstrates the relationship between life and death through ivan ilych’s battle with illness.
b. tolstoy demonstrates the inevitableness of death in all of his works.
c. the protagonist of the story faces a moral dilemma.
d. tolstoy demonstrates a spiritual message of how to live a meaningful life in the death of ivan ilych.
e. ivan finally realizes that his life was full of superficiality and tries to mend it by doing good deeds.
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I think its A: Tolstoy demonstrates the relationship between life and death through Ivan Ilych’s battle with illness.

The correct answer is:  A. Tolstoy demonstrates the relationship between life and death through Ivan Ilych's battle with illness.  The story of this work is real, based on the painful illness suffered by a magistrate, who was a terminally ill patient who endured physical suffering and psychics, without support from his family.

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)