The next morning i told mom that i couldn’t go to school, because i was too sick. it was the first lie that i had to tell. she put her hand on my forehead and said, “you do feel a bit hot.” i said, “i took my temperature and it’s one hundred point seven degrees.” that was the second lie. she turned around and asked me to zip up the back of her dress which she could have done herself, but she knew that i loved to do it. what assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt? that his mom will worry about him that his mom will trust him that his mom knows he is lying that his mom needs his

The assumption the narrator makes in this excerpt is that his mom will trust him. The narrator believes his mom will believe he is ill because he has never lied before. When reading "the first lie that I had to tell her" and "[that] was the second lie], the narrator makes clear reference to the fact that he doesn't usually lie. As a result, he knows his mum trusts him and will believe his lies.

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)