Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read this excerpt from Countee Cullen's poem "The Dark Tower," and then complete the sentences that follow.

We shall not always plant while others reap
The golden increment of bursting fruit,
Not always countenance, abject and mute,
That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;
Not everlastingly while others sleep . . .

When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the injustices present in American society. As these injustices have changed over time, the American has also shifted. Those changes are, in turn, reflected in American literature.

Read this excerpt from Countee Cullen's poem "The Dark Tower," and then complete the sentences that follow.

We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; Not everlastingly while others sleep . . .

When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the (1.) injustices present in American society. As these injustices have changed over time, the American (2.) has also shifted. Those changes are, in turn, reflected in American literature.

1. A) racial

B) internal

C) casual

2. A) focus

B) identity

C) response

1. A. Racial

2.B.  Identity

Explanation:

When Cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute", he is speaking about the racial injustices in American society.

He was talking about the unfair treatment the blacks (and other minorities) have been receiving while a lot of people stood mute without doing anything to change it.

As these injustices have changed over time, the American identity has also shifted.

The injustices and unfair treatment changed the way people in America thought and acted, hence the identity shift.

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)

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