I'M TORN BETWEEN A AND C PLEASE HELP Read the passage from “Barack Obama’s Keynote Address: 2004 Democratic National Convention.”

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandmother. If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

Which concept does Obama develop in this passage?

A. The responsibility of politicians to take care of the less fortunate

B. The goal of Americans to uphold the nation’s values by looking beyond selfish interests

C. The need to recognize inequalities so that American life can improve

D. The hard times that all people experience in life

A

Explanation:

A and C are both good answers but the idea conveyed especially in the words, "even if it's not my child", and other sentences in this excerpt, lead me to believe A is ur best answer/

C. The need to recognise inequalities so that American life can improve

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)