Select a topic and write a critique of at least 500 words. Follow carefully the instructions given below. What will you specifically review in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea? Write a thesis sentence statement. Send it to your teacher to review to make sure that it is manageable. Write a rough outline of your paper. Be sure you can work with it. Write your critical essay. You will be graded on the following criteria: Clearly state your thesis, and support it with evidence from the text. Use at least three specific quotes. Remember to document your evidence properly, using MLA format (click here to review the MLA Style Guide). Make sure each paragraph contains one main idea and support. Use complete sentences including compound and complex sentences. Include an introductory paragraph, proper transitions, and an appropriate conclusion. Make sure your essay contains no errors in conventions such as spelling and grammar errors, and is at least 500 words long.

Freedoms" speech. i have called for personal sacrifice. i am assured of the willingness of almost all americans to respond to that call. a part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. in my budget message i shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today. no person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation. what argument is roosevelt supporting with his appeal to logic in the underlined section of the excerpt? if americans are willing to trust roosevelt, it only makes sense that he will ensure that the tax money is well managed. if americans are willing to make a personal sacrifice, it only makes sense that they will be seen as both noble and patriotic. if americans feel it is right to enter the war, it only makes sense that they will have to pay more in taxes to cover the costs. if americans feel it is right to pay more taxes, it only makes sense that they should also agree it is right to enter the war.