Reread these sentences from “The Silent Songbird”. “Sometimes Madison rehearsed with Abigail, which sad the most difficult task of all. Abigail acted like a spoiled Hollywood star and was about as pleasant as a rattlesnake to Madison.”

The reference to a rattlesnake refers to what character trait from “The Rainbow Crow”?
a. boastfulness
b. selfishness
c. sneakiness
d. doubtfulness

i’ve seen people say that it is a, yet in the passage of “The Rainbow Crow” it states: “His sweet songs charmed the hearts of the other animals, even mean, selfish Rattlesnake and lonesome Wolf.” so i was just curious

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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)

normally working animals are domesticated and ruled by a master, a domesticator (tamer), to perform basic and important functions on a farm, for example. the value used in this context is animal labor in exchange for food. it is not so much a contrast to the story told by napoleon and the pigs, since the animals of that particular farm also performed functions on the farm through domestication. the only thing is that in this case, who rules them is a pig, also an animal, but very respected, to whom the other animals lent him submission. that's about a strong relationship of dependency between animal and owner.