"The Machine Stops" 12. PART A: Consider the silence at the end of the story. How is this detail important to the development of the passage’s central ideas?

A Silence means the Machine has officially stopped, supporting the idea that technology has its limits.

B Silence literally and figuratively means death when the Machine stops: both the end of individual lives and the collapse of human civilization.

C Silence represents the unknown, like the darkness, which also comes when the Machine stops.

D Silence means the Machine has officially stopped, and with it the destruction of faith and establishment of an indifferent universe.

B Silence literally and figuratively means death when the Machine stops: both the end of individual lives and the collapse of human civilization.

Explanation:

This is exceptionally effective acknowledging that talking movement photographs had not even been discovered at that moment. “The Machine Stops” displays Forster's attention to the tomorrow of humankind, and the key theme concentrates on the consequences of humankind's dependency upon technology.

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)