Write a summary of “Totally Free?” Remember that a summary is a concise, complete, and accurate overview of a text. It should not include a statement of your opinion or an analysis.

Totally free? is a short narrative on the word freedom. This narrative highlights the different notions that people have of what it means to be free.

The basic ideas from this excerpt that would help you to form this summary  are:

Freedom in this excerpt is discussed in two ways; The positive attitude of free people and the negative attitudes of people who are free.

On the positive side, freedom is the ability of people to express their fundamental rights.

On the negative side, freedom is seen as the ability to act in whatever one one chooses. These people define freedom as the absence of laws where anyone can act as they choose to.

The concluding part of the text says, even though freedom means that there are no restraints. People are better off having their freedoms protected by the law to avoid anarchy.

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in this alternate universe, renaissance romeo is now seventeen, an apprentice to a glass maker in venice. modern romeo is planning to go to college. what major do you think he’ll elect?

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)